Robert Sattelmeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1018058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Sattelmeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Sattelmeyer |
| SIGNATURE | SATTELMEYER R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women
Contents: Preface Introduction Lucretia Smith's Soldier Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man A Mediaeval Romance The Esquimau Maiden's Romance Hellfire Hotchkiss A Story without an End Wapping Alice How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson A Horse's Tale Eve's Diary Saint Joan of Arc Little Bessie Mark Twain, Rebellious Girls, and Daring Young Women Works Cited Suggestions for Further Reading Sources
Mark Twain, a Literary Life
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel Clemens was, what matters most is the relationship of Mark the writer and his writings. That is the subject of this book.-from the Preface In Mark Twain, A Literary L…
My Friend, My Friend
Henry David Thoreau was a twenty-year-old scholarship student at Harvard when he met Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. Emerson, fourteen years Thoreau's senior and independently wealthy, had recently shaken the intellectual world of New England with the publication of Nature. Despite the disparity in their circumstances, Thoreau and Emerson quickly formed a close relationship that lasted until Thoreau's death at the age of forty-four. This book tells …
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a b…
Did Sam Clemens Take the Abolitionists for a Ride
Prophet in the Marketplace
Thoreau's Reading
Manhood and the American Renaissance
"When He Became My Enemy"
T HE friendship of Emerson and Thoreau, like the relationship between Hawthorne and Melville or Fitzgerald and Hemingway, is a rich event in literary history, one important not only for what drew the men together but also for what drove them apart. Particularly close during the late 1830s and early 1840s, Emerson and Thoreau had become seriously estranged from one another by 1850 and never managed to reestablish their old intimacy thereafter, alt…
Thoreau's Reading
Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library charging records, the catalogue of his personal library, and his many unpublished notebooks and commonpl…
Revising Mythologies
Thoreau's Complex Weave
"Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi
A depiction of the period of Mark Twain's life when he wrote Life on the Mississippi examines the book's evolution and literary organization
A Riddle worth the Reading
Thoreau and Melville's Typee
La reaction de T. a la lecture de I. temoigne de sa conscience naissante de la complexite du probleme pose par la relation sauvage-civilise
Thoreau and the American Indians
"The Sources and Genesis of Melville's "Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow
IN THE FINAL MONTHS of I853 Herman Melville completed a series of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands, entitled Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, and sent them to Putnam's Monthly magazine where they were printed in successive issues, March through May, i854.1 As was his habit and perhaps his necessity at this time, Melville relied heavily on secondary sources for descriptive detail and narrative incident in Encantadas, using documents of explo…
A Possible Source and Model for "The Story of China Aster" in Melville's The Confidence-Man
W HEN THE PHILOSOPHER Mark Winsome's practical disciple Egbert offers to tell Frank Goodman Story of China Aster, Chapter 40 of The Confidence-Man (I857), he introduces it with the following disclaimer which calls attention to its disjunctiveness and provides a major clue to Melville's satiric and thematic intent in this puzzling interpolation: will tell you about China Aster. I wish I could do so in my own words, but unhappily the original story…
"The Sources and Genesis of Melville's "Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow
IN THE FINAL MONTHS of I853 Herman Melville completed a series of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands, entitled Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, and sent them to Putnam's Monthly magazine where they were printed in successive issues, March through May, i854.1 As was his habit and perhaps his necessity at this time, Melville relied heavily on secondary sources for descriptive detail and narrative incident in Encantadas, using documents of explo…
A Possible Source and Model for "The Story of China Aster" in Melville's The Confidence-Man
W HEN THE PHILOSOPHER Mark Winsome's practical disciple Egbert offers to tell Frank Goodman Story of China Aster, Chapter 40 of The Confidence-Man (I857), he introduces it with the following disclaimer which calls attention to its disjunctiveness and provides a major clue to Melville's satiric and thematic intent in this puzzling interpolation: will tell you about China Aster. I wish I could do so in my own words, but unhappily the original story…
Thoreau and the American Indians
"The Sources and Genesis of Melville's "Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow
IN THE FINAL MONTHS of I853 Herman Melville completed a series of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands, entitled Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, and sent them to Putnam's Monthly magazine where they were printed in successive issues, March through May, i854.1 As was his habit and perhaps his necessity at this time, Melville relied heavily on secondary sources for descriptive detail and narrative incident in Encantadas, using documents of explo…
Thoreau and Melville's Typee
La reaction de T. a la lecture de I. temoigne de sa conscience naissante de la complexite du probleme pose par la relation sauvage-civilise
A Riddle worth the Reading
"Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi
A depiction of the period of Mark Twain's life when he wrote Life on the Mississippi examines the book's evolution and literary organization
Thoreau's Complex Weave
"When He Became My Enemy"
T HE friendship of Emerson and Thoreau, like the relationship between Hawthorne and Melville or Fitzgerald and Hemingway, is a rich event in literary history, one important not only for what drew the men together but also for what drove them apart. Particularly close during the late 1830s and early 1840s, Emerson and Thoreau had become seriously estranged from one another by 1850 and never managed to reestablish their old intimacy thereafter, alt…
Thoreau's Reading
Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library charging records, the catalogue of his personal library, and his many unpublished notebooks and commonpl…
Revising Mythologies
Thoreau's Reading
Manhood and the American Renaissance
Prophet in the Marketplace
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a b…
Did Sam Clemens Take the Abolitionists for a Ride
Mark Twain, a Literary Life
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel Clemens was, what matters most is the relationship of Mark the writer and his writings. That is the subject of this book.-from the Preface In Mark Twain, A Literary L…
My Friend, My Friend
Henry David Thoreau was a twenty-year-old scholarship student at Harvard when he met Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. Emerson, fourteen years Thoreau's senior and independently wealthy, had recently shaken the intellectual world of New England with the publication of Nature. Despite the disparity in their circumstances, Thoreau and Emerson quickly formed a close relationship that lasted until Thoreau's death at the age of forty-four. This book tells …
How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women
Contents: Preface Introduction Lucretia Smith's Soldier Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man A Mediaeval Romance The Esquimau Maiden's Romance Hellfire Hotchkiss A Story without an End Wapping Alice How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson A Horse's Tale Eve's Diary Saint Joan of Arc Little Bessie Mark Twain, Rebellious Girls, and Daring Young Women Works Cited Suggestions for Further Reading Sources
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