American Literature Records, 1927-2000s

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1898-1968

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Thomas Ollive Mabbott (July 6, 1898 – May 15, 1968) was an American professor and scholar of literature, perhaps best known for his research on writer Edgar Allan Poe. He has also done studies on John Milton, Walt Whitman, Thomas Chatterton, and Edward Coote Pinkney. Mabbott was born and raised in New York City. He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University, earning his AB (1920), AM (1921), and Ph.D. (1923) in English. After graduating from Columbia, Mabbott taught English literatu...

Basler, Roy Prentice

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Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988

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Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; recipient of packages of letters from Burt. From the description of Correspondence from Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862428 Dr. Robert E. Spiller was a professor in the English Department at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1923-1928. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat ...

Leisy, Ernest Erwin, 1887-....

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Author and professor of English. From the description of Papers of Ernest Erwin Leisy, circa 1923-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131192 ...

Blair, Walter, 1900-....

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Educator and literary scholar. From the description of Papers, 1970-1989. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40329113 Professor of English, University of Chicago, Ill.; scholar in American humor studies. From the description of Papers, 1933-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19242468 ...

Ellis, Harold Milton

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Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 1875-1960

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Professor of English and Drama at the University of Pennsylvania (1895-1945). Received this collection as a gift from Lewis George Sterner, and in turn donated it to the library. From the description of Correspondence from Lewis George Sterner, 1930. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212911456 Arthur Hobson Quinn was on the faculty of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscript...

Modern language association of America

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The American Literature Group was formed in 1921, after the Modern Language Association (MLA) reluctantly acknowledged a growing scholarly interest in the writing of the United States. At the time such literature was studied primarily in secondary schools, and most colleges and universities had no courses on the topic. Those that did, usually offered only a single survey course. The idea that American literature could stand on its own as a discipline was viewed with skepticism, it b...

Paine, Gregory Lansing

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Foerster, Norman

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Biography American author and editor From the guide to the Norman Foerster Papers, ca. 1900-1949, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.) ...

American Literature

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The quarterly journal American Literature was founded in 1928 by Jay Broadus Hubbell as a joint effort of the Modern Language Association's American Literature Group (later Section) and Duke University (it is published by Duke Press). The journal was the first to take American literature as its exclusive subject. Hubbell served as Chairman of the Board of Editors 1929-1954; Clarence Gohdes 1954-1969; Arlin Turner 1969-1979; Edwin Cady 1979-1985; Louis Budd 1985-1990; Cat...

Cargill, Oscar

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Pochmann, Henry A. (Henry August), 1901-1973

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Henry A. Pochmann was Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. From the description of Henry A. Pochmann class registers, 1928-1930. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 302285789 ...

Brown, Herbert Ross, 1902-1988

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Herbert Brown was born 1902 in Allentown, Pa., and died 1988 July 26. He was a professor of American Literature at Bowdoin College and was the managing editor of the New England Quarterly for 36 years. He lived in Brunswick. From the description of Letter, to Arthur Andrew Hauck, University of Maine [Orono, Me.], 1945 Jan. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 49296226 ...

Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-1995

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University professor, author, and Whitman scholar. From the description of Letters, 1990-1995. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40421951 From the description of Gay Wilson Allen papers, 1801-1988 and undated (bulk 1925-1970s). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31182073 1903, Aug. 23 Born, Lake Junaluska, N.C. 1926 ...

Pattee, Fred Lewis

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Holloway, Emory, 1885-1977

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Emory Holloway was a pioneering scholar of Walt Whitman whose biography of Whitman (Whitman, Whitman, an Interpretation in Narrative, Knopf, 1926) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, the first time that the Pulitzer was awarded to a book about a major literary figure. From the description of Walt Whitman : clippings from the files of Emory Holloway : scrapbook with autograph notes, [1892-1931]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 747350515 ...

Warren, Austin, 1899-1986

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Austin Warren was an American educator and writer. Born in Massachusetts, he was educated at Harvard and Princeton and embarked on a career as an instructor of English at major American universities. He published several books, chiefly on literary theory. His primary interests were theology, philosophy, and religious history, and his writing is generally concerned with these topics. Warren died in 1986. From the description of Warren Austin letters to Philip Young, 1943-1985. (Pennsy...

Williams, Stanley Thomas

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Murdock, Kenneth Ballard, 1895-1975

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Murdock graduated from Harvard in 1916; taught English at Harvard and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. From the description of Papers of Kenneth B. Murdock, 1932?-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973140 ...

Bradley, Edward Sculley

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Duke Press

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Woodress, James Leslie

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James Leslie Woodress received an M.A. from New York University and a Ph.D. from Duke University. He serves as a professor of English at the University of California at Davis. Woodress has published several volumes relating to Willa Cather, including Willa Cather: Her Life and Art, Willa Cather: A Literary Life, and a definitive edition of Willa Cather's The Troll Garden . He provided a historical essay and assisted with explanatory notes included in the scholarly edition of My Ántonia published...

Rusk, Ralph L. (Ralph Leslie), 1888-

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Professor of American Literature at Columbia University, 1925-1953. One of the founders of the journal AMERICAN LITERATURE. Rusk married Clara Gibbs in 1915. From the description of Ralph Leslie Rusk papers, 1782-1981. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 49980504 Professor of English, Columbia University, 1925-1954, and Ralph Waldo Emerson specialist. Rusk taught English at the University of the Philippines, 1912-1914. Columbia University ...

Werner, William Louser, 1894-1965

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William L. Werner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 20, 1894. He received a bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College in 1915 and served in France with the 316th Infantry during World War I. He was an instructor in English at Penn State in 1920, earning a master's degree in 1922. Following Dr. Fred Lewis Pattee's retirement in 1928, he assumed much of Dr. Pattee's work in American literature. He was made a full professor of American literature in 1936 and retired in 1959 as profe...

McDowell, Tremaine, 1893-1959

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Tremaine McDowell began working on the faculty of the University of Minnesota English Dept. in 1928. In 1945, an interdepartmental American Studies Program was established, and McDowell served as chairman until he retired. From the description of Tremaine McDowell papers, 1958. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63286196 ...

Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980

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Jones was a Professor of English at Harvard, having joined the department in 1936; he retired in 1962 as Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities. He was known as the "historian of American culture." From the description of Correspondence with Robert E. L. Strider, 1949-1980 (inclusive), 1962-1979 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064254 Writer and educator at Harvard University. From the description of Howard Mumford Jones Papers, 1915...

Campbell, Killis, 1872-1937

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Author and literature professor Killis Campbell (1872-1937), born to Robert Camm and Alice (Hawes) Campbell in Enfield, Virginia, taught at the University of Texas beginning in 1918 until his death from a stroke in 1937. His education began at Peabody College for Teachers where he earned a B. Litt degree in 1892, followed by a B. A. from William Mary College in 1894, and in 1898, his PhD from John Hopkins University. Additionally, Campbell studied at the British Museum and the Bodle...

Whicher, George F.

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American Literature Section of the MLA

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Leonidas Warren, Jr.

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Millett, Fred Benjamin, 1890-....

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Fred B. Millett (1890-1976) was a professor of English and director of the Honors College at Wesleyan University. From the description of Fred B. Millett World War II Letters from Students, 1913, 1939 - 1948. (Wesleyan University). WorldCat record id: 166275327 ...

Turner, Arlin.

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General Career Biography 1909 Born November 25 in Abilene, Tex. 1927 Received B.A. from West Texas State University 1930 Received M.A. from the University of Texas 1934 Received Ph.D. from the University of ...

Henry Nash Smith Committee

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American Literature Section

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Coad, Oral Sumner

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Hart, James D. (James David), 1911-1990

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Hart earned his Harvard AM in 1933 and his PhD in 1936. From the description of Notes in Comparative Literature 11, 1932-1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511481 From the description of Notes in English 52, 1932-1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511508 From the description of Notes in English 19, 1932-1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228511487 From the description of Notes in English 9, 1932-1933. (Harvard Un...

Pound, Louise, 1872-1958

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American folklorist who taught at the University of Nebraska. From the description of Folklore collection, 1908-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536724 From the guide to the Louise Pound folklore collection, 1908-1953, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Louise Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 30, 1872. She earned a B.A. in 1892 and a M.A. in 1895 from the University of Nebraska. She matriculated at Heidelberg University where she received her Doctor ...

Cairns, William B.

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Forsythe, Robert Stanley

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Clark, Harry Hayden, 1901-1971

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Adams, Raymond William

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Braswell, William

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