Portuguese amd Brazilian Studies

The son of the suffragist and reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Stanton (1851–1925) was the author of Literary Men as Diplomats (1898) and Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur (1910). In collaboration with mem-bers of the faculty of Cornell University, he ...

To native writers emerging in the 1920s The Education of Henry Adams (1918) spoke with an immediacy and an authority now difficult to recon-struct. Sherwood Anderson, whose own Winesburg, Ohio (1919) would soon become another model for young writers, was ...

“In Another Country” draws upon Hemingway's experiences during World War I. Narrated by a wounded young American, this story is a parable of early machine-rehabilitation therapy, one in which the strong optimism of a physician employing new machines is contrasted with the skepticism of an Italian major (“the greatest fencer in Italy”) who, disbelieving in the machines, nevertheless comes regularly

In one of the most familiar passages in twentieth-century literature, Nick Carraway thinks back on the late Jay Gatsby, who had suffered so grievously from the hard malice of the Buchanans and their like in the inhospitable East. It begins as an elegy but turns into a lament for ...

... Ibsen, for example, 5 HenryJames, preface to The Awkward Age, vol. 9 of The Novels and Tales of Henry James, New York Edition (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908), p. xviii. Further references to this work appear in the text. Page 5. JAMES, HUEFFER, AND GARNETT ...