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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) |
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Robert S. Levine is a scholar of American and African American literature. He is currently Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland,College Park.
Levine received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1975 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1981. [1] [2] His research focuses on 19th-century American literature,especially on the life and works of Frederick Douglass. [3] He sits on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals including American Literary History and Journal of American Studies and serves as General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. [4]
Herman Melville was an American novelist,short story writer,and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851);Typee (1846),a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia;and Billy Budd,Sailor,a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death Melville was not well known to the public,but 1919,the centennial of his birth,was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Francis Otto Matthiessen was an educator,scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies. His best known work,American Renaissance:Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman,celebrated the achievements of several 19th-century American authors and had a profound impact on a generation of scholars. It also established American Renaissance as the common term to refer to American literature of the mid-nineteenth century. Matthiessen was known for his support of liberal causes and progressive politics. His contributions to the Harvard University community have been memorialized in several ways,including an endowed visiting professorship.
The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies,the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism and was closely associated with Transcendentalism.
"Isle of the Cross" is a possible unpublished and lost work by Herman Melville,which would have been his eighth book,coming after the commercial and critical failures of Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre:or,The Ambiguities (1852). Melville biographer Hershel Parker suggests that the work,perhaps a novel,perhaps a story,was what had been known as the "story of Agatha," completed around May 1853. He further suggests that finishing the work showed that Melville had not,as many biographers argued,been discouraged and turned away from fiction.
"Egotism;or,The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1843 in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in New York.
Richard A. Yarborough is Professor of English and African-American literature and a Faculty Research Associate with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles. He is also an editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.
Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature,noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the Norton Critical Edition of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick,and the General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville,which,with the publication of volume 13,"Billy Budd,Sailor" and Other Uncompleted Writings,is now (2017) complete in fifteen volumes. Parker is the author of a two-volume biography of Herman Melville published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Parker also edited the first ever one-volume edition of Melville's complete poetry,Herman Melville:Complete Poems,published by the Library of America in 2019.
The bibliography of Herman Melville includes magazine articles,book reviews,other occasional writings,and 15 books. Of these,seven books were published between 1846 and 1853,seven more between 1853 and 1891,and one in 1924. Melville was 26 when his first book was published,and his last book was not released until 33 years after his death. At the time of his death he was on the verge of completing the manuscript for his first novel in three decades,Billy Budd,and had accumulated several large folders of unpublished verse.
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850) is an essay and critical review by Herman Melville of the short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846. Published pseudonymously by "a Virginian spending July in Vermont",it appeared in The Literary World magazine in two issues:August 17 and August 24,1850. It has been called the "most famous literary manifesto of the American nineteenth century."
Brenda Wineapple is an American non-fiction writer,literary critic,and essayist who has written several books on nineteenth-century American writers.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is a professor of English at Texas State University. His research and teaching focuses on the relations among space,narrative,and representation,particularly in U.S. and comparative literature,and he is active in the emerging scholarly fields of geocriticism,literary geography,and the spatial humanities. Tally is the editor of "Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies," a Palgrave Macmillan book series established in 2013. The translator of Bertrand Westphal's Geocriticism:Real and Fictional Spaces and the editor of Geocritical Explorations,In addition to his numerous essays on literature,criticism,and theory,Tally has written books on Herman Melville,Edgar Allan Poe,Kurt Vonnegut,and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit,as well as a critical introduction to the work of literary critic and theorist Fredric Jameson.
This bibliography of Andrew Johnson is a list of major works about Andrew Johnson,the 17th president of the United States.
Merton M. Sealts Jr. was a scholar of American literature,focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville. His most important works are the genetic edition of Melville's Billy Budd,Sailor,Pursuing Melville,1940–1980 (1982) and Melville's Reading. He taught at Lawrence College (1948–1965),and became Henry A. Pochmann Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1965-1982). He won both Ford Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships.
John Stauffer is Professor of English,American Studies,and African American Studies at Harvard University. He writes and lectures on the Civil War era,antislavery,social protest movements,and photography.
Stanley Thomas Williams was a scholar who helped to establish the study of American literature as an academic field during his teaching career at Yale University. In 1935 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His most notable publication is a two-volume biography of Washington Irving but he is best remembered for changing the study of Herman Melville by strategically directing doctoral dissertations on his life and works.
Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian,and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave's Cause:A History of Abolition (2016),which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. and,most recently The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic:Reconstruction,1860-1920 (2024).
Harrison Mosher Hayford was a scholar of American literature,most prominently of Herman Melville,a book-collector,and a textual editor. He taught at Northwestern University from 1942 until his retirement in 1986. He was a leading figure in the post-World War II generation of Melville scholars who mounted the Melville Revival. He was General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry The Writings of Herman Melville published by Northwestern University Press,which established reliable texts for all of Melville's works by using techniques of textual criticism.
David Van Leer was an award winning American educator and LGBT cultural studies researcher.
The Boston mayoral election of 1867 saw the election of Democratic Party nominee Nathaniel B. Shurtleff,who unseated Republican incumbent Otis Norcross.
William Leake Andrews is an American Professor Emeritus of English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a scholar of early African-American literature. With books such as To Tell a Free Story:The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography,1760–1865 (1986),Andrews helped establish the academic study of African-American literature in the late twentieth century. In 2017,Andrews received the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature from the Modern Language Association.