Modern Language Association of America,American Literature Section Papers, 1922-1999

Elaine Ryan Hedges was born in Yonkers, New York on August 17, 1927. She lived in Baltimore, Maryland, beginning in the late 1960s until her death on June 5, 1997. She was married in 1956 to William Hedges, a college professor, and had two children: daughter, Marietta Hedges, and son, James Leonard Hedges Hedges graduated from Barnard College in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies. She received a master’s degree (1950) and a doctorate degree (1970) in...

Committee on a Cooperative Literary History

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Manuscript Holdings Committee

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Pochmann, Henry

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Hayford, Harrison.

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Harrison Mosher Hayford was born November 1, 1916 in Belfast, Maine, the son of Ralph Hayford and Marjorie Chase Hayford. A scholar of American literature, Hayford held academic positions at a smattering of universities before joining the faculty of Northwestern University in 1942, where he remained until his retirement in 1986. Hayward's research focused on Herman Melville, as well as his contemporaries (Hawthorne, Emerson and Poe). Hayford's father was a dairy farmer a...

Benjamin Franklin Fisher.

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Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV received his M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from the English Department at Duke University in 1963 and 1969, respectively. Fisher, an Edgar Allan Poe scholar, has published multiple books on the writer, including The Very Spirit of Cordiality: The Literary Uses of Alcohol and Alcoholism in the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe in 1978, Poe and Our Times: Influences and Affinities in 1986, and Poe and His Times: The Artist in His Milieu in 1990. In 1993, Fisher was awarde...

Joseph Blotner

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Hubbell, Jay B.

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Edward Bradley

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Ernest Marchand

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American studies association

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Academic association organized in 1951 to encourage the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history. From the description of American Studies Association records, 1946-2005 (bulk 1965-2005). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070285 ...

Blotner, Joseph, 1923-2012

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Biographer. From the description of Faulkner [manuscript] : a biography : typescript, 1982-1984. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943375 ...

MLA

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Foerster Prize Committee

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American Literature Section

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Committee on Trends in Research in American Literature

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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...

Holman, High

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U. Colorado

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Millgate, Michael.

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Michael Millgate, University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Toronto, is one of the leading textual scholars, critics and biographers working in the field of English literature today. He has published major editions and books on Thomas Hardy (including seven volumes of letters) and William Faulkner, and is a world authority on both authors, as well as a highly respected commentator on their contemporaries. Excerpts from his publications have appeared steadily in collections, a...

Alexander Cowie

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Committee on Library Manuscript Holdings

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Security Bank

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Willard Thorp)

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Gibson, William M.

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Duke Press

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Davis, Richard Beale

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University of Utah.

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The paleontological research was sponsored by the University of Utah. From the description of Utah vertebrate paleontological field photographs, [ca. 1965]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518067 The following history is from the UTAH HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA article on the University of Utah, by Dr. Gregory C. Thompson: Originally named the University of Deseret, the University of Utah is the oldest state university west of the Missouri River. Founded...

Robert Edson Lee)

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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 ...

Robert Spiller)

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Arlin Turner

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James Woodress)

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Charles Nilon

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Donald Yannella

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Nye, Russel B. (Russel Blaine), 1913-1993

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Russel B. Nye was born in Viola, Wisconsin, February 17, 1913. He received as A.B. from Oberlin College in 1934, an M.A. in 1935 and a Ph. D. in 1940 from the university of Wisconsin, an Litt. D. from Northern Michigan University in 1968 and an LL. D. from Ferris State College in 1969. Nye was a professor of English at Michigan State University from September 1, 1940 to July 1, 1979. He came out of retirement temporarily to teach at the university from January through August 1980. Nye published ...

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