Herbert Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herbert Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James A. Herne
The Dramatization of the Rise of Silas Lapham
Herne, Garland, and Henry George
ENRY GEORGE made few converts among men of letters to his lgospel of the Single Tax, and his doctrine exerted little direct influence upon their creative writing, but their devotion to The Prophet of San Francisco as a man and as a champion and symbol of social justice is a striking phenomenon in the history of modern literature. To Tolstoy, George was a modern Moses inspired by God to lead the oppressed millions of the earth to a new Promised La…
Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
Lydia M. Child's the Frugal Housewife
Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
Henry James and Ibsen
O NLY RECENTLY has the probable influence of Ibsen on the technique of Henry James's later period become a subject of scholarly interest. In 1943 Austin Warren commented upon the probable influence of Ibsen in the novels of the final period with respect to their tight technique and their symbolism.' In I947, in his introduction to The Other House, Leon Edel, after pointing out James's extensive knowledge of Ibsen, showed the similarities in techn…
Howells and Herne
OWELLS'S FIRST NOTICE of dramas of James A. 1l1iHerne was in Editor's Study of Harper's for June, I890. It was a rather extensive article on state of American drama, and it had occasioned by Howells's having seen a performance of Herne's Drifting Apart. Howells opened his article with a severe criticism of American dramatic critics for insistence that American plays must conform to artificial technique of French well-made plays, with their extrem…
Henry Admas
T HERE is little doubt that Henry Adams, despite his frequent disclaimers, longed most of his life for a position of power in politics. It was in his blood-his great-grandfather a President, his grandfather a President, his father the ablest New England member of Congress and later one of our greatest representatives at the Court of St. James. It is not surprising that as early as 186o, we find Henry Adams exclaiming in youthful enthusiasm, is th…
Zola and the American Critics
Howells and the Controversy over Realism in American Fiction
Henry James and Ibsen
O NLY RECENTLY has the probable influence of Ibsen on the technique of Henry James's later period become a subject of scholarly interest. In 1943 Austin Warren commented upon the probable influence of Ibsen in the novels of the final period with respect to their tight technique and their symbolism.' In I947, in his introduction to The Other House, Leon Edel, after pointing out James's extensive knowledge of Ibsen, showed the similarities in techn…
Howells and the Controversy over Realism in American Fiction
Zola and the American Critics
Henry Admas
T HERE is little doubt that Henry Adams, despite his frequent disclaimers, longed most of his life for a position of power in politics. It was in his blood-his great-grandfather a President, his grandfather a President, his father the ablest New England member of Congress and later one of our greatest representatives at the Court of St. James. It is not surprising that as early as 186o, we find Henry Adams exclaiming in youthful enthusiasm, is th…
Howells and Herne
OWELLS'S FIRST NOTICE of dramas of James A. 1l1iHerne was in Editor's Study of Harper's for June, I890. It was a rather extensive article on state of American drama, and it had occasioned by Howells's having seen a performance of Herne's Drifting Apart. Howells opened his article with a severe criticism of American dramatic critics for insistence that American plays must conform to artificial technique of French well-made plays, with their extrem…
Henry James and Ibsen
O NLY RECENTLY has the probable influence of Ibsen on the technique of Henry James's later period become a subject of scholarly interest. In 1943 Austin Warren commented upon the probable influence of Ibsen in the novels of the final period with respect to their tight technique and their symbolism.' In I947, in his introduction to The Other House, Leon Edel, after pointing out James's extensive knowledge of Ibsen, showed the similarities in techn…
Lydia M. Child's the Frugal Housewife
Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
Herne, Garland, and Henry George
ENRY GEORGE made few converts among men of letters to his lgospel of the Single Tax, and his doctrine exerted little direct influence upon their creative writing, but their devotion to The Prophet of San Francisco as a man and as a champion and symbol of social justice is a striking phenomenon in the history of modern literature. To Tolstoy, George was a modern Moses inspired by God to lead the oppressed millions of the earth to a new Promised La…
The Dramatization of the Rise of Silas Lapham
James A. Herne
Art (9 works) · History (8 works) · Literature (6 works) · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Realism (2 works)