Gerard M Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5702078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard M Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY G M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Wealth of Abner Spragg
Henry James and the "New England Conscience"-Once Again
Melville's Use of Classical Mythology
Melville's Hawthornian Bell-Tower
IN CONSTRUCTING Bell-Tower and fashioning Talus, its mechanical man, Melville evidently culled material from a variety of sources: Spenser's description of Talus in The Faerie Queene; Pierre Bayle's discussion in his Historical and Critical Dictionary of the alleged alchemy of Albertus and Agrippa; and Mary Shelley's depiction of an overreaching scientist and his man-made creature in Frankenstein: or, The Modern Promietheus. Then too, Moby-Dick i…
The Medea Howells Saw
THE CONNECTION between A Modern Instance and Medea has long been an accepted fact. Regarding the genesis of the novel, we are told by William M. Gibson when Howells witnessed Francesca Janauschek's fiery re-creation on the stage of Medea's love for the self-centered Jason as it turned into hatred and engendered terrible acts of revenge, he said to himself, as he told an interviewer many years later, 'This is an Indiana divorce case . . . and the …
The Medea Howells Saw
THE CONNECTION between A Modern Instance and Medea has long been an accepted fact. Regarding the genesis of the novel, we are told by William M. Gibson when Howells witnessed Francesca Janauschek's fiery re-creation on the stage of Medea's love for the self-centered Jason as it turned into hatred and engendered terrible acts of revenge, he said to himself, as he told an interviewer many years later, 'This is an Indiana divorce case . . . and the …
The Medea Howells Saw
THE CONNECTION between A Modern Instance and Medea has long been an accepted fact. Regarding the genesis of the novel, we are told by William M. Gibson when Howells witnessed Francesca Janauschek's fiery re-creation on the stage of Medea's love for the self-centered Jason as it turned into hatred and engendered terrible acts of revenge, he said to himself, as he told an interviewer many years later, 'This is an Indiana divorce case . . . and the …
Melville's Hawthornian Bell-Tower
IN CONSTRUCTING Bell-Tower and fashioning Talus, its mechanical man, Melville evidently culled material from a variety of sources: Spenser's description of Talus in The Faerie Queene; Pierre Bayle's discussion in his Historical and Critical Dictionary of the alleged alchemy of Albertus and Agrippa; and Mary Shelley's depiction of an overreaching scientist and his man-made creature in Frankenstein: or, The Modern Promietheus. Then too, Moby-Dick i…
Melville's Use of Classical Mythology
Henry James and the "New England Conscience"-Once Again
The Wealth of Abner Spragg
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · History (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Alchemy (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work)