James Barbour
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Barbour |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbour |
| SIGNATURE | BARBOUR J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1902 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essays on Puritans and Puritanism
Journal Article Essays on Puritans and Puritanism, by Leon Howard, edited by James Barbour and Thomas Quirk. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, xiii + 221 pp. $19.95 Get access Steve Bruce Steve Bruce Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 1988, Pages 85–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711114 Published: 01 March 1988
"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…
Carlyle and the Conclusion of Moby-Dick
N interesting and revealing discussion of literary influences, Herman Melville referred to mere reading as an obstacle rather than as an accelerator for a young author. Existing great he added, must be in the before they could prove and provocative to him.' For more than a half-century, now, scholars have been busily engaged in identifying the many works, great, small, or fragmentary, which were federated in the fancy that created Moby-Dick; and …
The Composition of Moby-Dick
SOME TWENTY YEARS AGO George R. Stewart's The Two MobyDicks appeared in American Literature.' Since that time his theory of the composition of Moby-Dick, though often ignored, has not been seriously questioned;2 it is, briefly, that there were separate narratives written during distinct periods of time and arranged back to back in the completed work. It is now time to review the theory of two Moby-Dicks in order to see whether it accurately descr…
Notice of the Excavation of the Camp or Earthwork at Rispain in Wigtownshire
The camp was excavated by the Society in 1901, with the aid of a gift of 50 for that purpose by the Eight Hon
"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…
Notice of the Excavation of the Camp or Earthwork at Rispain in Wigtownshire
The camp was excavated by the Society in 1901, with the aid of a gift of 50 for that purpose by the Eight Hon
The Composition of Moby-Dick
SOME TWENTY YEARS AGO George R. Stewart's The Two MobyDicks appeared in American Literature.' Since that time his theory of the composition of Moby-Dick, though often ignored, has not been seriously questioned;2 it is, briefly, that there were separate narratives written during distinct periods of time and arranged back to back in the completed work. It is now time to review the theory of two Moby-Dicks in order to see whether it accurately descr…
Carlyle and the Conclusion of Moby-Dick
N interesting and revealing discussion of literary influences, Herman Melville referred to mere reading as an obstacle rather than as an accelerator for a young author. Existing great he added, must be in the before they could prove and provocative to him.' For more than a half-century, now, scholars have been busily engaged in identifying the many works, great, small, or fragmentary, which were federated in the fancy that created Moby-Dick; and …
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…
Essays on Puritans and Puritanism
Journal Article Essays on Puritans and Puritanism, by Leon Howard, edited by James Barbour and Thomas Quirk. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, xiii + 221 pp. $19.95 Get access Steve Bruce Steve Bruce Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 1988, Pages 85–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711114 Published: 01 March 1988
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