Chester E Eisinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 681712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chester E Eisinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chester E |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisinger |
| SIGNATURE | EISINGER C E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction since 1945
Fact & Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
Bernard Malamud and the Trial by Love
Memoirs of Waldo Frank
American Novels of the Second World War
Fiction of the Forties
American Fiction, the Intellectual Background
Hawthorne as Champion of the Middle Way
THERE has been a tendency throughout the twentieth century to read Hawthorne in the light of one dominant body of critical doctrine. The keys to his work, it has been widely asserted, are pride, Puritanism, solitude, and the haunted mind.1 These terms in combination make up a comprehensive view of Hawthorne that emphasizes the bleak and gloomy aspects of his work. I should like to suggest that the central moral purpose in Hawthorne is distorted b…
Land and Loyalty: Literary Expressions of Agrarian Nationalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
THE HISTORY OF IDEAS method has proved particularly fruitful in dealing with the first two centuries of American literature. It cannot be seriously contested that in most cases the value of this literature lies in the body of ideas it sets forth. Scholars, recognizing this fact, have dealt with the relationship between our early literature and the religious, economic, political, and scientific thought of the period. One significant notion that ha…
The Freehold Concept in Eighteenth-Century American Letters
D URING the eighteenth century poets, politicians, and economists created in America a complex of ideas which has been called the myth. This myth apotheosized virtues like simplicity and purity which had been traditional among champions of the rural life since the days of Hesiod, and it dictated social choices consistent with these virtues, such as preferring the country to the city, the farmer to the capitalist or day laborer, and democracy to a…
The Freehold Concept in Eighteenth-Century American Letters
D URING the eighteenth century poets, politicians, and economists created in America a complex of ideas which has been called the myth. This myth apotheosized virtues like simplicity and purity which had been traditional among champions of the rural life since the days of Hesiod, and it dictated social choices consistent with these virtues, such as preferring the country to the city, the farmer to the capitalist or day laborer, and democracy to a…
The Freehold Concept in Eighteenth-Century American Letters
D URING the eighteenth century poets, politicians, and economists created in America a complex of ideas which has been called the myth. This myth apotheosized virtues like simplicity and purity which had been traditional among champions of the rural life since the days of Hesiod, and it dictated social choices consistent with these virtues, such as preferring the country to the city, the farmer to the capitalist or day laborer, and democracy to a…
Land and Loyalty: Literary Expressions of Agrarian Nationalism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
THE HISTORY OF IDEAS method has proved particularly fruitful in dealing with the first two centuries of American literature. It cannot be seriously contested that in most cases the value of this literature lies in the body of ideas it sets forth. Scholars, recognizing this fact, have dealt with the relationship between our early literature and the religious, economic, political, and scientific thought of the period. One significant notion that ha…
Hawthorne as Champion of the Middle Way
THERE has been a tendency throughout the twentieth century to read Hawthorne in the light of one dominant body of critical doctrine. The keys to his work, it has been widely asserted, are pride, Puritanism, solitude, and the haunted mind.1 These terms in combination make up a comprehensive view of Hawthorne that emphasizes the bleak and gloomy aspects of his work. I should like to suggest that the central moral purpose in Hawthorne is distorted b…
Fiction of the Forties
American Fiction, the Intellectual Background
American Novels of the Second World War
Memoirs of Waldo Frank
Bernard Malamud and the Trial by Love
Fact & Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction since 1945
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