Lives Out Of Letters

Author : Robert N. Hudspeth
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640050
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives Out of Letters written by Robert N. Hudspeth and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, artention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. Dedicated to Robert N. Hudspeth, editor of the Letters of Margaret Fuller and the Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, the eleven essays in this collection address from a practitioner's perspective the relationship between American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation.

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429961066
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives and Letters written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. In Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong. In New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at The New Yorker. And so much more . . .

Author : Anton Van Dreveldt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803227415
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family written by Anton Van Dreveldt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anton and Theodor van Dreveldt grew up in Emmerich, Prussia, as the sons of a Catholic priest and his housekeeper - a situation their father tried to disguise by presenting himself as their uncle. As young men, both Anton and Theodor found their lives increasingly troubled. Anton drank heavily, and Theodor's career was jeopardized by his participation in a banned political organization. These troubles, combined with growing Prussian authoritarianism, led to their independent emigrations to the United States, Theodor in 1844 and Anton in 1849."--BOOK JACKET. "Theodor, tormented by malaria and financial difficulties, returned to Germany, but Anton and his son Bernhard, who emigrated after Theodor's return, remained. This separation helped produce a remarkable body of correspondence describing the van Dreveldts' often troubled relationships with each other, their homeland, and America. Their letters compare the age-old tribulations of Europe against the promise and challenges of a new country. The van Dreveldts' experience provide a fascinating glimpse into the complexities of immigrant life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Trev Lynn Broughton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134891563
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men of Letters, Writing Lives written by Trev Lynn Broughton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. This study focuses on two case studies from the period 1880-1903: the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195061195
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters, Fictions, Lives written by Henry James and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and long-awaited volume, Michael Anesko documents the literary cross-fertilization between Henry James and William Dean Howells, collecting 151 letters, nearly all the extant correspondence between the two men, as well as the most significant critical commentary James wrote on Howells and Howells wrote on James. Containing dozens of previously unpublished letters by James, and featuring a detailed biographical chronology as well as extensive interpretive commentaries that meticulously chart the development of this remarkable literary friendship, Letters, Fictions, Lives, edited to the highest standards of scholarly excellence, will prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students of James and Howells, and will hold great interest for dedicated readers of their fiction and for those studying epistolary issues and literary influence between contemporaries.

Author : Vanessa Kraemer Sohan
Publisher : Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit
ISBN 13 : 0817320385
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives, Letters, and Quilts written by Vanessa Kraemer Sohan and published by Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit. This book was released on 2019 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores how writers, composers, and other artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials. To do so, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan focuses on three very unique instances, or case studies, that exemplify such rhetorical strategies--one political, one epistolary, and one artistic"--

Author : John Carswell
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206815
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives and Letters written by John Carswell and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf, in a mixture of distaste and admiration, called them "the literary underworld," although their names were in the mainstream in the England of World War I and the 1920s. Today for the most part unfamiliar, then they connected variously, and not unimportantly, with Shaw and H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and D.H. Lawrence, not to overlook Pound, Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Edwin Muir, among countless others. The pages of A. R. Orage's The New Age and John Middleton Murry's numerous periodicals (Rhythm, The Blue Review, The Athenaeum, Adelphi) were the intellectual forums of their day, the mirrors of the trends in taste and social concerns. The five principals in John Carswell's gracious, perceptive reminiscence were not of a single coterie. Rather, they shared in a particular kind of literary life: professional without being academic, dedicated without being regimented, all were devoted to careers which were often the only source of their livelihoods. In the final analysis, none were creative giants: Katherine Mansfield now remembered less for her stories, and Murry for his criticism, than as Lawrence's Gudrun and Gerald (Women in Love); "Kot's" role in introducing Russian literature becomes a dim footnote; the wild Beatrice Hastings perhaps glimpsed in a biography of Modigliani in Bohemian Paris; the fine imprint of Orage's editorial genius, faded. Yet they were intrinsic to their time, and their serious and passionate lives and letters are quickened in these glowing pages.

Author : Temma F. Berg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754655992
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-century Circle of Acquaintance written by Temma F. Berg and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While most of the letter writers are unknown, four achieved prominence - the author Charlotte Lennox, the Reverend Thomas Winstanley, the navigator Charles Clerke, and the bluestocking Susannah Dobson. This book presents new perspectives on Lennox's and Winstanley's domestic lives, Clerke's ambiguous encounters with indigenous peoples, and Dobson's mysterious sexuality." "This book will appeal to eighteenth-century scholars as well as to scholars in women's and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to postcolonial, queer, and other literary theorists."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : J.A. HAMMERTON
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9359951021
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Greatest Books Vol.- X Lives and Letters written by J.A. HAMMERTON and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World's Greatest Books Vol. X" through J. A. Hammerton is a set of works from many unique fields and time durations, cautiously selected to be timeless masterpieces. As the 10th book in a famous series, Hammerton skillfully puts collectively a set of literary gemstones that show how rich and varied human expression may be. The collection consists of works by way of well-known authors, weaving together a tapestry of literature that is going beyond countrywide and historic barriers. As an editor and author who works very tough, Hammerton genuinely is aware of a lot about literary benefit. He chooses works which have stood the check of time and nevertheless fascinate readers. The extent takes readers on a literary trip thru the landscapes of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. The author carefully selected each piece, making the entire book a pride to examine. "The World's Greatest Books Vol. X" suggests how determined Hammerton is to preserve and share the history of literature round the arena. It is a treasured aid for people who want to study more about the depths of human creativity and intellectual success. It indicates how human beings have expressed their private delight in lots of exclusive approaches throughout time and international locations.

Author : Henry Brougham
Publisher : Philadelphia : Carey and Hart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Men of Letters and Science written by Henry Brougham and published by Philadelphia : Carey and Hart. This book was released on 1845 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: