George M Spangler
Biographic Data
| ID | 682186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George M Spangler |
| GIVEN NAMES | George M |
| FAMILY NAME | Spangler |
| SIGNATURE | SPANGLER G M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The idea of degeneration in American fiction 1880–1940
(1989). The idea of degeneration in American fiction 1880–1940. English Studies: Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 407-435
C. B. Brown's Arthur Mervyn
THOUGH SIMPLE in conception, Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn (I799; Part II, i8oo) is wonderfully complicated in execution. Brown adopted the straightforward, familiar tale of a young man's initiation and made of it a text extraordinary in its elaborateness, even in comparison to the intricacies of his other long fictions. There is nothing like it in serious American fiction until Faulkner's novels, excepting perhaps Melville's Pierre, the…
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Social Fiction
Suicide and Social Criticism
avant-garde novelists eschew the social interests of the classic novel, sociology and serious fiction appear to be worlds apart. But at the turn of the last century, in the works of a great French sociologist and three important American writers, literature and sociology were remarkably at one in perception and purpose. Obviously differing in method-the difference between statistical analysis and dramatized fictional case-Emile Durkheim in Suicid…
The structure of Mcteague
Theron Ware and the Perils of Relativism
As critical commentary on Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) has slowly accumulated during the last fifteen years, there has emerged something of a consensus about the novel at very general levels of interpretation and evaluation.1 Most critics who have written about the novel at some length are agreed upon its status as at least a minor masterpiece of American literature and the ambitiousness of Fred- eric's effort to dramatiz…
Moral Anxiety in a Modern Instance
T HOUGH established as Howells' first major novel and one of his four or five most impressive works, A Modern Instance (1882) has nonetheless been a problem for Howellsians. Though they have generally agreed that moral issues are central to the novel, they have notably failed to agree about the specific terms in which these issues are to be understood, and, more important, about the degree of intellectual and artistic coherence with which they ar…
The Shadow of a Dream
that they tell us must always remain a wilderness, with all its extraordinary phenomena irredeemably savage and senseless. Spoken by Faulkner, one of the central characters, these words in their anticipation of one of the fundamental assumptions of psychoanalysis provide a valuable hint about the most useful critical approach to William Dean Howells' novel The Shadow of a Dream (1890).' This short novel of about forty thousand words deals with th…
Pudd'nhead Wilson
THE STRIKING LACK OF AGREEMENT about the merits of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson is unquestionably related to the equally striking disagreements over interpretaton of the novel, related in the crucial sense that all the thematic analyses so far presented leave important aspects of the novel unaccounted for. The result is that those who are inclined to praise the novel dismiss certain parts as finally inconsequential evidence of Twain's predictab…
The idea of degeneration in American fiction 1880–1940
(1989). The idea of degeneration in American fiction 1880–1940. English Studies: Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 407-435
Suicide and Social Criticism
avant-garde novelists eschew the social interests of the classic novel, sociology and serious fiction appear to be worlds apart. But at the turn of the last century, in the works of a great French sociologist and three important American writers, literature and sociology were remarkably at one in perception and purpose. Obviously differing in method-the difference between statistical analysis and dramatized fictional case-Emile Durkheim in Suicid…
Pudd'nhead Wilson
THE STRIKING LACK OF AGREEMENT about the merits of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson is unquestionably related to the equally striking disagreements over interpretaton of the novel, related in the crucial sense that all the thematic analyses so far presented leave important aspects of the novel unaccounted for. The result is that those who are inclined to praise the novel dismiss certain parts as finally inconsequential evidence of Twain's predictab…
The Shadow of a Dream
that they tell us must always remain a wilderness, with all its extraordinary phenomena irredeemably savage and senseless. Spoken by Faulkner, one of the central characters, these words in their anticipation of one of the fundamental assumptions of psychoanalysis provide a valuable hint about the most useful critical approach to William Dean Howells' novel The Shadow of a Dream (1890).' This short novel of about forty thousand words deals with th…
Moral Anxiety in a Modern Instance
T HOUGH established as Howells' first major novel and one of his four or five most impressive works, A Modern Instance (1882) has nonetheless been a problem for Howellsians. Though they have generally agreed that moral issues are central to the novel, they have notably failed to agree about the specific terms in which these issues are to be understood, and, more important, about the degree of intellectual and artistic coherence with which they ar…
Theron Ware and the Perils of Relativism
As critical commentary on Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) has slowly accumulated during the last fifteen years, there has emerged something of a consensus about the novel at very general levels of interpretation and evaluation.1 Most critics who have written about the novel at some length are agreed upon its status as at least a minor masterpiece of American literature and the ambitiousness of Fred- eric's effort to dramatiz…
The structure of Mcteague
Suicide and Social Criticism
avant-garde novelists eschew the social interests of the classic novel, sociology and serious fiction appear to be worlds apart. But at the turn of the last century, in the works of a great French sociologist and three important American writers, literature and sociology were remarkably at one in perception and purpose. Obviously differing in method-the difference between statistical analysis and dramatized fictional case-Emile Durkheim in Suicid…
C. B. Brown's Arthur Mervyn
THOUGH SIMPLE in conception, Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn (I799; Part II, i8oo) is wonderfully complicated in execution. Brown adopted the straightforward, familiar tale of a young man's initiation and made of it a text extraordinary in its elaborateness, even in comparison to the intricacies of his other long fictions. There is nothing like it in serious American fiction until Faulkner's novels, excepting perhaps Melville's Pierre, the…
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Social Fiction
The idea of degeneration in American fiction 1880–1940
(1989). The idea of degeneration in American fiction 1880–1940. English Studies: Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 407-435
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