Author: Charles Henry DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Eugene Field's Creative Years
Author: Charles Henry DennisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Eugene Field and His Age
Author: Lewis O. SaumPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803242876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Eugene Field (1850?95) is perhaps best remembered for his children's verse, especially "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." During his journalistic career, however, his column, "Sharps and Flats," in the Chicago Daily News illuminated the shenanigans of local and national politics, captured the excitement of baseball, and praised the cultural scene of Chicago and the West over that of the East Coast and Europe. Field used whimsy, satire, and, at times, unadorned admiration to depict and encapsulate the energy of a young nation reinventing itself and its political ambitions in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Foremost, Field was a political observer. During his lifetime politics saw more public awareness and involvement than at any other time in American history, and Field's great popularity derived mainly from his near-ceaseless commentary?arch, outlandish, comic, serious?on that arena of affairs. Field also devoted many columns to entertainment and diversions, discussing the baseball "idiocy" that stormed Chicago and championing and criticizing authors and actors.
Schoolroom Poets
Author: Angela SorbyPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654582
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A fresh and provocative approach to the popular schoolroom poets and the reading public who learned them by heart.
Life of Eugene Field
Author: Slason ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Our World Weekly
Author: Herbert Askwith
Author: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Includes both books and articles.
On Humor
Author: Louis J. BuddPublisher: Best from American Literature
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.
Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Model Man
Author: Hans KrabbendamPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004485600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Edward William Bok was the most famous Dutch-American in early twentieth-century America thanks to his thirty-year editorship of the Ladies’ Home Journal, the most prestigious women’s magazine of the day. This first complete coverage of Edward Bok’s life places him against his ethnic background and portrays him as the spokesman for and the molder of the American middle class between 1890 and 1930. He acted as a mediator between a Victorian and a modern society, reconciling consumerism with idealism. As a Dutch immigrant he became a model for successful adaptation to a new country and modern times. He used his national reputation to restore America’s internationalism in the 1920s. His life story is relevant to those interested in the history of immigration, journalism, the rise of big business, the women’s movement, and the Progressive Movement.