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Book The Unpublished Letters of Bayard Taylor in the Huntington Library

Download or read book The Unpublished Letters of Bayard Taylor in the Huntington Library written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor was a poet, prose writer, lecturer, traveller, and diplomat. These letters document his life and varied activities.

Book The Unpublished Letters of Bayard Taylor

Download or read book The Unpublished Letters of Bayard Taylor written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Letters of Bayard Taylor

Download or read book Selected Letters of Bayard Taylor written by Bayard Taylor and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor was one of the most famous persons of his day and carried on a wide correspondence. His ambition and thirst for fame are recurrent themes in these letters, as well as his fears and uncertainties. He emerges as a highly talented writer who succeeded by force of will.

Book Bayard Taylor and German letters

Download or read book Bayard Taylor and German letters written by John T. Krumpelmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Bayard Taylor and German letters".

Book Bayard Taylor

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  • Author : Liam Corley
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-21
  • ISBN : 161148572X
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Bayard Taylor written by Liam Corley and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) was a nineteenth-century American who combined in his writings and career a catalog of accomplishments and creations that made him one of the most celebrated literary men of his time. The range and significance of Taylor’s oeuvre explains his growing importance today to scholars working in the fields of American studies, gender and queer theory, and the aesthetics of racial and class identities. In less than 35 years, he wrote seventeen volumes of poetry, four novels, eight critical works and translations of German classics, nineteen travel narratives, innumerable magazine essays, stories, and reviews, and thousands of letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers, business acquaintances, and intimate male companions. His extraordinary success on the public lecture circuit made him one of the best-known men of his day. Taylor's diplomatic career enhanced his reputation and influence as a travel writer and included service as a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge d’affaires to Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878. This analysis of Taylor’s life and works helps to explain three important shifts in American culture: the contradictory development of American ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth century; the impact of homophobia and homophilia upon American literary production, criticism, and culture; and the inspirational role played by poetry within a religious and economically-driven society. The introduction describes Taylor's changing fortunes within literary history and presents a methodological approach to the Genteel tradition that recovers its distinctive aesthetic and social values and explains how Taylor is its most winning and significant representative. Taylor was a key figure in the genealogy of American interactions with the Islamic world, and his travel writing demonstrates how individual advancement in an egalitarian society can be linked with aggressive imperialism abroad. Taylor’s novels display a subtle pattern of transgressive sexuality and demonstrate how Taylor's manipulation of reputation and genteel aesthetics created a space for individual expression and freedom. Taylor’s 1870 novel, Joseph and His Friend, is frequently cited as America's first gay novel. This book's analysis of Taylor’s poetry draws the strands of egalitarian racialization and male-male intimacy together with his abiding concern with regional American identities and the mixed influences of religious subcultures.

Book Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor

Download or read book Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bayard Taylor

Download or read book Bayard Taylor written by Paul Charles Wermuth and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne

Download or read book The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne

Download or read book The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Huntington Library Quarterly

Download or read book The Huntington Library Quarterly written by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report by the Standing Committee to the Board of Trustees and Report by the Librarian

Download or read book Report by the Standing Committee to the Board of Trustees and Report by the Librarian written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain

Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain written by J.R. LeMaster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention is given to the delicate relationship between art and life, between artistic interpretations and their factual source. This comprehensive resource includes information on: Twain’s life and times: the author's childhood in Missouri and apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, early career as a journalist in the West, world travels, friendships with well-known figures, reading and education, family life and career Complete Works: including novels, travel narratives, short stories, sketches, burlesques, and essays Significant characters, places, and landmarks Recurring concerns, themes or concepts: such as humor, language; race, war, religion, politics, imperialism, art and science Twain’s sources and influences. Useful for students, researchers, librarians and teachers, this volume features a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry also includes a bibliography for further study.

Book The Valley of Cross Purposes

Download or read book The Valley of Cross Purposes written by Carol J. Frost PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, Charles Nordhoff forged the shape of modern journalism and profoundly influenced both politicians andpolitics. Principled, activist, investigative, and a champion of the disenfranchised and poor, he was more interested incharacter and results than in personality and credit. And like the blacksmith wielding his hammer, he left us the tangibleproducts of his labors, but few details of himself. With superb research, illuminating insights, and eloquent prose, Carol Frost brings Nordhoff vividly to life: both the man andhis extraordinary impacts on politics, journalism, government, and public discourseimpacts that are still defining publiclife today. Journalists, historians, and activists will find context and inspiration in this captivating and previously untold story, a storythat in many important ways feels like it was written about the events and debates of our own time rather than those ofmore than 100 years ago.

Book Literary History of the United States Bibliography

Download or read book Literary History of the United States Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George Palmer Putnam

Download or read book George Palmer Putnam written by Ezra Greenspan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Palmer Putnam (1814&–1872) was arguably the most important American publisher of the nineteenth century, a man fully and multiply involved in developments transforming all aspects of literary culture. In this comprehensive cultural biography, Ezra Greenspan offers a wide-ranging account of a rich, productive life lived in print, interrelating Putnam&’s life with the life of his family (one of the most remarkable of its time), with the changing patterns of life in New York City and the nation, and with the institutionalization of modern print culture in nineteenth-century America. Putnam&’s roles and achievements were many: he established and ran the publishing house of G. P. Putnam&’s in New York City; published many of the leading American antebellum writers, male and female, canonical and noncanonical (indeed, was responsible for the first act of American canonization&—of Washington Irving); was the leading publisher of art books in his time and launched Putnam's Monthly; led efforts resulting in the institutionalization of the American publishing industry and was the most outspoken promoter of American authorship; led the fight in the United States for international copyright; was the first American publisher to open an overseas (London) branch office; and for a decade was the leading American agent in the international book trade. Putnam&’s achievements were not limited to his professional sphere: he was also the founding Superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the official publisher to the New York World's Fair of 1853, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue in New York City during the Civil War, and the organizer of the greatest authors-publishers dinner ever given in nineteenth-century America. Friend and confidant to many of the leading figures of his time, he was not simply a centrally placed publisher but was one of the most centrally placed people of his entire society. This study is based on meticulous archival research into not only Putnam's own papers but into the records of his business, the papers of other family members, and the archives of persons with whom Putnam had contact through business and social networks. In a finely detailed narrative, Greenspan weaves together the story of Putnam's life and that of the development of print culture in nineteenth-century America to offer an ambitious, comprehensive biography of this &"representative American publisher.&"