Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914

Herausgeber: Rawlings, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays, many of which are reprinted here for the first time, are arranged in chronological order and provide a fascinating conspectus of American attitudes to Shakespeare, from Revolutionary and Transcendentalist approaches through to the influential interventions of professional American critics in the early twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781138324466
• ISBN-10: 1138324469
• Artikelnr.: 69899316

Autorenporträt

Peter Rawlings

Inhaltsangabe

1. 1776
The Pausing American Loyalist
Moses Coit Tyler 2. 1820
The Boar's Head Tavern
East Cheap: A Shakespearean Research
Washington Irving 3. 1820 Stratford-On-Avon
Washington Irving 4. 1828
Notions of the Americans
James Fenimore Cooper 5. 1835
Misconceptions of Shakespeare upon the Stage
John Quincy Adams 6. 1836
Advantages and Disadvantages of Foreign Influence on American Literature
Henry D. Thoreau 7. 1838 On the Progress of Civilization
George Bancroft 8. 1839
Literary Vassals
Orestes A. Brownson 9. 1838
Emerson
Orestes A. Brownson 10. 1839
Shakespeare
Jones Very 11. 1840
The Bermudas: A Shakespearian Research
Washington Irving 12. 1844
Shakespeare; or
The Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson 13. 1844 Shakespeare and Insanity
A. O. Kellogg 14. 1845
A Review of William Hazlitt's 'The Characters of Shakespeare'
Edgar Allan Poe 15. 1848
The Romance of Yachting
Joseph C. Hart 16. 1848
Alleged Immorality
H. N. Hudson 17. 1850
Shakespeare in America
Anonymous 18. 1850
Hawthorne and his Mosses
Herman Melville 19. 1856 William Shakespeare and his Plays
Delia Bacon 20. 1857
Preface to Delia Bacon's 'The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded'
Nathaniel Hawthorne 21. 1857
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded
Delia Bacon 22. 1863
Recollections of a Gifted Woman
Nathaniel Hawthorn 23. 1863
A Letter from President Lincoln to Mr. Hackett: August 17
1863
Abraham Lincoln 24. 1864
Shakespeare
Ralph Waldo Emerson 25. 1864
Shakespeare
Olivia Wendell Holmes 26. 1866
Why we have no Shakespearean Scholars
Anonymous 27. 1866
Philosopher and Poet
Nathanial Holmes 28. 1867
A Thought on Shakespeare
Anna C. Brackett 29. 1868
Shakespeare Once More
James Russell Lowell 30. 1869
Coriolanus
Mary Preston 31. 1870
Two Speeches
William Cullen Bryant 32. 1871
Domestic Vistas
Walt Whitman 33. 1872
On the Unveiling of Shakespeare's Statue in Central Park
William Cullen Bryant 34. 1874
The Shakespearean-Bacon Controversy
E. O. Vaile 35. 1876 How Shall we Spell Sh-k-sp-r-'s Name?
J. H. Gilmore 36. 1877
In Warwickshire
Henry James 37. 1881
Poetry To-Day in America-Shakspere-The Future
Walt Whitman 38. 1884
The Anatomizing of William Shakespeare
Richard Grant White 39. 1884
What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays?
Walt Whitman 40. 1886
A Thought on Shakspere
Walt Whitman 41. Introduction to The Taming of the Shrew
William Winter 42. 1887
An Additional Word on Taming of the Shrew
Augustin Daly 43. 1888
A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads
Walt Whitman 44. 1888
George Fox (and Shakspere)
Walt Whitman 45. 1890
Walt Whitman's View of Shakespeare
Johnathan Trumbull 46. 1891
The Whitman-Shakespeare Question
Johnathan Trumbull 47. 1983
Edwin Booth
William Winter 48. 1895
Shakespeare's Americanisms
Henry Cabot Lodge 49. 1897
Barnum and Shakespeare
Mark Twain 50. 1898
New World Discoveries
Frank M. Bristol 51. 1905
Shaw and Shakespeare
W. D. Howells 52. 1906
Shakespeare in America
George B. Churchill 53. 1907
Introduction to The Tempest
Henry James 54. 1907
The Response of Concord
Henry James 55. 1909
Is Shakespeare Dead?
Mark Twain 56. 1911
Shakespeare Spells Ruin
William Winter 57. 1913
Shakespeare and his Audience
Brander Matthews 58. 1914
Shakespeare and America: The Perpetual Ambassador of the English-Speaking World
Charles William Wallace 59. 1917
Shakespeare and the Founders of Liberty in America
Charles Mill Gayley 60. 1927
Shakespeare in America
Ashley Thorndike.