William Gleason

Biographic Data

ID760614
NAMEWilliam Gleason
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMEGleason
SIGNATUREGLEASON W
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0000-0003-2196-3511
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Remapping Black Childhood in The Brownies’ Book

    Open AccessWilliam GleasonARTICLEHumanities2022

    This essay examines the recurring preoccupation with geography in W. E. B. Du Bois’s and Jessie Redmon Fauset’s African American children’s magazine, The Brownies’ Book (1920–1921). Drawing in part on conventions established by early Black periodicals, including an emphasis on the rich global presence of non-Western peoples and places, many of the magazine’s features, from its stories and poems to its images and games, offered Black children a mu…

  • Grounds for Fun: The Place of Play in 19th-Century American Culture

    William GleasonARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2013References: 3

    Chase Levenson and the audience at the 2013 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, “Leisure, Enjoyment, and Fun,” held at the University of Virginia in March 2013, for their valuable feedback on the talk on which this essay is based.Notes[1] Bitzer's short film appears in Ric Burns's excellent 1991 documentary, Coney Island. A copy of the original film is held in the Historical Films Paper Print Collection in the Motion Picture,…

  • Excerpt from Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature

    Open AccessWilliam GleasonARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2012

    This excerpt from William A. Gleason’s Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature juxtaposes the work of Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres, two international travelers during the generation preceding US involvement in World War I. Davis, a popular author and magazine editor, barnstormed through Central and South America, which he made the subject of a popular travelogue and “imperialist novel.” Torres, a teenaged girl, …

  • The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940

    Janet E Schulte, William Gleason et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840–1940. By William A. Gleason. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 446 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8047-3399-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8047-3434-8.) Get access Janet E. Schulte Janet E. Schulte Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 200…

  • To Be an Author: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905

    William Gleason, William B Gleason et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1999

  • Chesnutt's Piazza Tales: Architecture, Race, and Memory in the Conjure Stories

    Open AccessWilliam GleasonARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1999Cited by: 1References: 2

    Chesnutt’s Piazza Tales: Architecture, Race, and Memory in the Conjure Stories William Gleason* (bio) Architecture is not simply a mechanical contrivance but an essay in the art of communication, a complex web of memories and messages. —J. Mordaunt Crook, The Dilemma of Style 1 When Charles W. Chesnutt surveyed his literary prospects in the fall of 1889, he had every reason to be optimistic. In the previous two years Chesnutt had placed three of …

  • The Zemstvo and Public Initiative in Late Imperial Russia

    William Gleason, Thomas PorterARTICLERussian History1994

  • Re-Creating Walden: Thoreau's Economy of Work and Play

    William GleasonARTICLEAmerican Literature1993Cited by: 2

    Influence du theme de l'identite nationale sur l'economie travail/loisir que H. Thoreau tente de formuler dans la version finale de Walden

  • Public Health, Politics, and Cities in Late Imperial Russia

    Open AccessWilliam GleasonARTICLEJournal of Urban History1990

  • Her Laugh an Ace: The Function of Humor in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

    Open AccessWilliam GleasonARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…1987

    We have one priceless universal trait, we Americans. That trait is our humor. What a pity it is that it is not more prevalent in our art.\n-William Faulkner\nMany early reviewers of Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine treat the novel as though it were at heart a tragic account of pain. They see Erdrich as merely a recorder of contemporary Indian suffering, as an evoker of her characters’ ”conflicting feelings of pride and shame, guilt and rage-the dis…

  • Alexander Guchkov and the End of the Russian Empire

    William Gleason, William B GleasonARTICLETransactions of the American…1983

  • The All-Russian Union of Towns and the Politics of Urban Reform in Tsarist Russia

    William Gleason, William E GleasonARTICLEThe Russian Review1976

  • Voina, Mir, Revoliutsiia: Ideinaia bor'ba v rabochem dvizhenii Rossii 1914-1917 gg

    William Gleason, С В Тютюкин et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1974Cited by: 1