Alexander C Kern

Biographic Data

ID5685609
NAMEAlexander C Kern
GIVEN NAMESAlexander C
FAMILY NAMEKern
SIGNATUREKERN A C
AFFILIATIONSIowa State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1940
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
H-INDEX0

  • Alexander Hamilton: A Biography

    Alexander C Kern, Forrest McdonaldARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1982

  • An American Studies View

    Open AccessAlexander Kern, Alexander C KernARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1979

    Civilization, or American Studies, to American scholarship is multior interdisciplinary scholarship. While the impossible ideal is the study of American culture as a unified whole, a selective history of the movement will indicate important achievements. Analysis from the point of view of the Sociology of Knowledge will point out how and why various ideological groups disapprove of interdisciplinary research and indeed of any approach but their o…

  • Thoreau's Vision: The Major Essays

    Alexander C Kern, Charles R AndersonARTICLEAmerican Literature1974

  • Dreiser and Fitzgerald as Social Critics

    Alexander C KernARTICLEThe Bulletin of the Midwest…1972

    Alexander C. Kern, Dreiser and Fitzgerald as Social Critics, The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 5, Papers of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Number 2. Criticism and Culture (1972), pp. 80-87

  • Essays in American and English Literature: Presented to Bruce Robert McElderry, Jr

    Alexander Kern, Alexander C Kern et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1969

  • Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values

    Alexander C Kern, David Brion DavisARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1957

    Homicide and the Nature of Man ALL our inquiries in morals, religion, and politics must begin with human nature.The ends for which a being is made, his relations, his true course of conduct, depend upon his nature.To comprehend the former, we must understand the latter.Accordingly, certain views of man are involved in all speculation about the object of life, and the proper sphere of human action.On such views all schemes of society and legislati…

  • The Development of American Literary Criticism

    Alexander C Kern, Floyd StovallARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1955

  • Letters of Noah Webster

    Alexander C Kern, Harry R WarfelARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1954

    Journal Article Letters of Noah Webster. Edited by Harry R. Warfel. (New York: Library Publishers, 1953. xlvi + 562 pp. Notes and indexes. $7.50.) Get access Alexander C. Kern Alexander C. Kern State University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 2, September 1954, Pages 325–326, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895821 Published: 01 September 1954

  • Emerson's Angle of Vision: Man and Nature in American Experience

    Alexander C Kern, Sherman PaulARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1952

  • American Painting; History and Interpretation

    Alexander C Kern, Virgil BarkerARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1951

    Journal Article American Painting; History and Interpretation. By Virgil Barker. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xxvii+717 pp. $12.50.) Get access Alexander C. Kern Alexander C. Kern State University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 38, Issue 2, September 1951, Pages 300–301, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895598 Published: 01 September 1951

  • The Articulate Sisters: Passages From Journals and Letters of the Daughters of President Josiah Quincy of Harvard University

    Alexander C Kern, M A De Wolfe HoweARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1947

    Journal Article The Articulate Sisters: Passages From Journals and Letters of the Daughters of President Josiah Quincy of Harvard University. Edited by M. A. De Wolfe Howe. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. ix + 249 pp. Illustrations and index. $3.50.) Get access Alexander C. Kern Alexander C. Kern State University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 34, Is…

  • American Radicalism, 1865-1901: Essays and Documents

    Alexander C Kern, Chester Mcarthur DestlerARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1946

    Journal Article American Radicalism, 1865–1901: Essays and Documents. By Chester McArthur Destler. Connecticut College Monograph No. 3. (New London : Connecticut College, 1946. xii + 254 pp. Index. Cloth, $3.50; Paper, $2.50.) Get access Alexander C. Kern Alexander C. Kern State University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 33, Issue 2, September 1946, Pages 321–322…

  • An Outline-History of American Literature

    Tremaine Mcdowell, Bartholow V Crawford et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1946

  • Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

    Alexander C Kern, Linnie Marsh WolfeARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1945

    Journal Article Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir. By Linnie Marsh Wolfe. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. xvii + 348 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $3.50.) Get access Alexander C. Kern Alexander C. Kern The State University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 32, Issue 3, December 1945, Page 438, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891156 Publis…

  • Walt Whitman: An American. A Study in Biography

    Alexander C Kern, Henry Seidel CanbyARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1944

    Walt Whitman: An American, A Study in Biography. By Henry Seidel Canby. (New York: Literary Classics, Inc., distributed by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1943. ix + 354 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $3.75.) Get access Alexander C. Kern Alexander C. Kern Allegheny College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 31, Issue 1, June 1944, Pages 127–128, https://doi.o…

  • American Literature in the Teaching of American History

    Alexander C KernARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1943

    Journal Article American Literature in The Teaching of American History Get access Alexander C. Kern, Alexander C. Kern University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip D. Jordan Philip D. Jordan Editor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 30, Issue 2, September 1943, Pages 243–245, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892969 Publish…

  • Emerson and Economics

    Alexander C KernARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1940

    or an idealist, yet within the province of economics Emerson has been called both. This sharp clash of critical opinion perhaps indicates that Emerson's economic thought has not been sufficiently examined. Although he was not an economist, not even primarily interested in economics, he so frequently touched the subject that an understanding of his economic ideas is a prerequisite to the evaluation of his entire thought on any relative or absolute…