Author: A. I. TobinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Frank Harris
Author: A. I. TobinFrank Harris
Author: A. I. TobinFrank Harris, a Study in Black and White
Author: A. I. TobinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258115197
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Frank Harris: a Study in Black and White
Author: A. I. TobinPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
To throw light on the motives & movements of a conspicuous literary figure of the last generation, two friends of Harris's from Chicago, Dr. Tobin, his 'authorized' biographer, & Mr. Gertz, an attorney who was Harris's agent in the latter years of his life have undertaken to sift the truth about Harris & to present a portrait of him that will reconcile the most shocking incongruities of his character with some of the fine performances of his pen. "Messrs. Tobin & Gertz have done a very good life of him. With great skill, they disentangle the facts from the cobwebs of fancy that he spun. They tell his story simply, clearly & honestly."--AMERICAN MERCURY. Illus.
Guide to the Study of United States Imprints
Author: George Thomas TansellePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674367616
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
British Comment on the United States
Author: Ada B. NisbetPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Oscar Wilde
Author: E.H. MikhailPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349039268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Notable American Women, 1607-1950
Author: Radcliffe CollegePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674627345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2172
Book Description
Vol. 1. A-F, Vol. 2. G-O, Vol. 3. P-Z modern period.
Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction
Author: A. KingstonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023060935X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker.
Bookleggers and Smuthounds
Author: Jay A. GertzmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Between the two world wars, at a time when both sexual repression and sexual curiosity were commonplace, New York was the center of the erotic literature trade in America. The market was large and contested, encompassing not just what might today be considered pornographic material but also sexually explicit fiction of authors such as James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, and D.H. Lawrence; mail-order manuals; pulp romances; and "little dirty comics." Bookleggers and Smuthounds vividly brings to life this significant chapter in American publishing history, revealing the subtle, symbiotic relationship between the publishers of erotica and the moralists who attached them—and how the existence of both groups depended on the enduring appeal of prurience. By keeping intact the association of sex with obscenity and shameful silence, distributors of erotica simultaneously provided the antivice crusaders with a public enemy. Jay Gertzman offers unforgettable portrayals of the "pariah capitalists" who shaped the industry, and of the individuals, organizations, and government agencies that sought to control them. Among the most compelling personalities we meet are the notorious publisher Samuel Roth, "the Prometheus of the Unprintable," and his nemesis, John Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, a man aggressive in his pursuit of pornographers and in his quest for a morally united—and ethnically homogeneous—America.