James Emmett Ryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 838074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Emmett Ryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Emmett |
| FAMILY NAME | Ryan |
| SIGNATURE | RYAN J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Statecraft and Schools
John Dickinson, a distinguished lawyer and politician who fought in the American Revolution before serving as governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware, was one of the wealthiest and best educated men in colonial Pennsylvania. His personal education was shaped by several key influences: private classical education with professional tutors, moral and ethical influence by the Quaker community (although Dickinson himself was not a Quaker), and advanced …
A Vivifying Spirit
Journal Article A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America Get access A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America. By Janet Moore Lindman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xiv, 270 pp. $119.95.) James Emmett Ryan James Emmett Ryan Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
A Language of Things
Emanuel Swedenborg, the Scandinavian naturalist, mystic, philosopher, and author of Opera Philosophica et Mineralia (Philosophical and logical works, 1734), figures in this study as a pioneer in environmental thought. Specifically, this book argues that Swedenborg's visionary theology ... came to operate as an agent of reenchantment for a group of American authors and artists who are associated with the appearance of an environmental imagination …
Antebellum America for German Immigrants
The career of German writer Talvi (Thérèse Albertine Luise von Jacob Robinson [1797–1870]) illustrates her strong engagement with the intellectual and elite literary scenes of nineteenth-century Europe and America. This essay reviews her family background and early literary activities in Europe, while noting her extraordinary career as a language scholar, novelist, poet, translator, ethnologist and historian. Written during a period before the de…
Ingrained Habits
Elizabeth Seton
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774–1821) was the first American-born Roman Catholic saint. Privately educated in New York City, Seton grew up in comfortable circumstances, educated and doted upon by socially prominent and religiously attuned parents. Her father, a son of French Huguenots, was a notable physician and professor of anatomy active in New York public health, while her mother grew up in the family of an Anglican priest and pastor of a St…
A. Glenn Crothers. Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth
While Philadelphia had been a stronghold of Quaker life and culture since the arrival of William Penn in the late seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of Friends eventually settled in the Potomac watershed of Northern Virginia beginning in 1730. These were years when discrimination against Quakers was easing somewhat after many years of legal restrictions against Quaker immigration to Virginia, but well before the official Quaker…
Cars of destiny
In the years just before and after 1908, when the first mass-produced automobiles were sold, a substantial practical, sporting and touristic literature was produced on the subject of motoring. Much of this literature, which is surveyed and analysed here, focused on long-distance motor racing and personal accounts of motor adventuring in Europe, Asia and America. These reports were often written by a generation of wealthy drivers, who were among t…
Staging Quakerism in American Theatre and Film
Arguing that Quakers have been used as influential stock characters in American performance culture, this essay profiles several examples of Quakers as represented in American theater and film: John Murdock’s play The Triumphs of Love (1795), Harry F. Millarde’s lost silent film The Quack Quakers (1916), and the Academy Award winning film High Noon (1952). Paradoxically, in each of these productions, which range from farce to serious drama, Frien…
The Catholic Imagination in American Literature
Book Review| June 01 2000 The Catholic Imagination in American Literature By Ross Labrie. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 1997. x, 306 pp.$39.95. James Emmett Ryan James Emmett Ryan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 445–446. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-445 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
The Blind Authoress of New York
The Blind Authoress of New York: Helen De Kroyft and the Uses of Disability in Antebellum America James Emmett Ryan* (bio) That extraordinary efforts and great expenses have been lavished upon one class of unfortunate persons, while others more deserving and afflicted have been left neglected, is apparent in the case of the blind, who have been almost entirely overlooked in the general and eager search after new objects of philanthropy. —Samuel G…
Catholic Converts
Sentimental Catechism
Building on an ample foundation of (often feminist) revisionary literary scholarship, which over the last decade has fostered a substantial reexamination of "sentimental" texts created by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American novelists, recent studies of sentimentality in nineteenth-century American culture have continued to expose its political import, social complications, gender paradoxes, and racial construction. Once dismiss…
Elizabeth Seton
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774–1821) was the first American-born Roman Catholic saint. Privately educated in New York City, Seton grew up in comfortable circumstances, educated and doted upon by socially prominent and religiously attuned parents. Her father, a son of French Huguenots, was a notable physician and professor of anatomy active in New York public health, while her mother grew up in the family of an Anglican priest and pastor of a St…
Sentimental Catechism
Building on an ample foundation of (often feminist) revisionary literary scholarship, which over the last decade has fostered a substantial reexamination of "sentimental" texts created by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American novelists, recent studies of sentimentality in nineteenth-century American culture have continued to expose its political import, social complications, gender paradoxes, and racial construction. Once dismiss…
Catholic Converts
The Blind Authoress of New York
The Blind Authoress of New York: Helen De Kroyft and the Uses of Disability in Antebellum America James Emmett Ryan* (bio) That extraordinary efforts and great expenses have been lavished upon one class of unfortunate persons, while others more deserving and afflicted have been left neglected, is apparent in the case of the blind, who have been almost entirely overlooked in the general and eager search after new objects of philanthropy. —Samuel G…
The Catholic Imagination in American Literature
Book Review| June 01 2000 The Catholic Imagination in American Literature By Ross Labrie. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 1997. x, 306 pp.$39.95. James Emmett Ryan James Emmett Ryan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 445–446. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-445 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook …
Staging Quakerism in American Theatre and Film
Arguing that Quakers have been used as influential stock characters in American performance culture, this essay profiles several examples of Quakers as represented in American theater and film: John Murdock’s play The Triumphs of Love (1795), Harry F. Millarde’s lost silent film The Quack Quakers (1916), and the Academy Award winning film High Noon (1952). Paradoxically, in each of these productions, which range from farce to serious drama, Frien…
Cars of destiny
In the years just before and after 1908, when the first mass-produced automobiles were sold, a substantial practical, sporting and touristic literature was produced on the subject of motoring. Much of this literature, which is surveyed and analysed here, focused on long-distance motor racing and personal accounts of motor adventuring in Europe, Asia and America. These reports were often written by a generation of wealthy drivers, who were among t…
A. Glenn Crothers. Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth
While Philadelphia had been a stronghold of Quaker life and culture since the arrival of William Penn in the late seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of Friends eventually settled in the Potomac watershed of Northern Virginia beginning in 1730. These were years when discrimination against Quakers was easing somewhat after many years of legal restrictions against Quaker immigration to Virginia, but well before the official Quaker…
Elizabeth Seton
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774–1821) was the first American-born Roman Catholic saint. Privately educated in New York City, Seton grew up in comfortable circumstances, educated and doted upon by socially prominent and religiously attuned parents. Her father, a son of French Huguenots, was a notable physician and professor of anatomy active in New York public health, while her mother grew up in the family of an Anglican priest and pastor of a St…
Ingrained Habits
A Language of Things
Emanuel Swedenborg, the Scandinavian naturalist, mystic, philosopher, and author of Opera Philosophica et Mineralia (Philosophical and logical works, 1734), figures in this study as a pioneer in environmental thought. Specifically, this book argues that Swedenborg's visionary theology ... came to operate as an agent of reenchantment for a group of American authors and artists who are associated with the appearance of an environmental imagination …
Antebellum America for German Immigrants
The career of German writer Talvi (Thérèse Albertine Luise von Jacob Robinson [1797–1870]) illustrates her strong engagement with the intellectual and elite literary scenes of nineteenth-century Europe and America. This essay reviews her family background and early literary activities in Europe, while noting her extraordinary career as a language scholar, novelist, poet, translator, ethnologist and historian. Written during a period before the de…
A Vivifying Spirit
Journal Article A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America Get access A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America. By Janet Moore Lindman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xiv, 270 pp. $119.95.) James Emmett Ryan James Emmett Ryan Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
Statecraft and Schools
John Dickinson, a distinguished lawyer and politician who fought in the American Revolution before serving as governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware, was one of the wealthiest and best educated men in colonial Pennsylvania. His personal education was shaped by several key influences: private classical education with professional tutors, moral and ethical influence by the Quaker community (although Dickinson himself was not a Quaker), and advanced …
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