Edward Wagenknecht
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American literary critic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Wagenknecht was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th century American literature. He wrote and edited many books on literature and movies, and taught for many years at various universities, including the University of Chicago and Boston University. He also contributed many book reviews and other writings to such newspapers as the Boston Herald, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune and to such magazines as The Yale Review and The Atlantic Monthly.
Edward Wagenknecht's Published Works
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Published Works
- Henry James: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers@@@Henry James: French Writers, Other European Writers, the Prefaces to the New York Edition (1987) (52)
- The Wound and the Bow, Seven Studies in Literature (1942) (22)
- The Complete Works of Washington Irving (1986) (21)
- Critical essays on Charles Brockden Brown (1985) (19)
- Cavalcade of the American Novel (1953) (19)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Known and the Unknown (1965) (14)
- Cavalcade of the English Novel (1970) (14)
- The Tales of Henry James (1984) (14)
- When the movies were young (13)
- Chaucer : modern essays in criticism (1959) (12)
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Man Behind the Legend (1963) (12)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Man and Writer (1961) (11)
- The Perfect Revenge-Hamlet's Delay a Reconsideration (1949) (11)
- The novels of Henry James (1983) (11)
- The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt (2008) (10)
- The Movies in the Age of Innocence (1997) (9)
- Dickens, the novelist (1968) (7)
- William Dean Howells: The Friendly Eye (1969) (6)
- James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man (1971) (6)
- A guide to Bernard Shaw (6)
- Mark Twain: The Man and His Work (1936) (6)
- The Personality of Chaucer (1968) (5)
- Daughters of the Covenant: Portraits of Six Jewish Women (1983) (5)
- Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction (1991) (5)
- Mrs. Longfellow : selected letters and journals (1956) (5)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Man, His Tales, and Romances (1989) (5)
- Washington Irving: Moderation Displayed (1963) (5)
- Cavalcade of the English novel : from Elizabeth to George VI (1943) (4)
- Cavalcade of the American Novel, from the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century. (1952) (4)
- The Ordeal of Bridget Elia, A Chronicle of the Lambs (1941) (4)
- The Heart of the Skyloo (1935) (4)
- Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait (1956) (4)
- Dickens and the Scandalmongers (1950) (3)
- The Personality of Milton (1970) (3)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Poetry and Prose (1986) (3)
- "Pessimism" in Hardy and Conrad (1942) (3)
- The Personality of Shakespeare (1972) (3)
- Mrs Longfellow Selected Letters and Journals of Fanny Appleton Longfellow 1817 1861 (2011) (3)
- The Little Prince Rides the White Deer: Fantasy and Symbolism in Recent Literature (1946) (3)
- Eve and Henry James: Portraits Of Women and Girls In His Fiction (1978) (3)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist. (1966) (2)
- Henry David Thoreau, what manner of man? (1981) (2)
- The Works of Mark Twain. Early Tales and Sketches (1983) (2)
- Emerson's First Marriage (1968) (2)
- The Selfish Heroine: Thackeray and Galsworthy (1943) (2)
- The story of Jesus in the world's literature (1946) (2)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson : an interpretive essay (1982) (2)
- The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë (1942) (2)
- Emerson's First Marriage. (1968) (2)
- John Greenleaf Whittier : a portrait in paradox (1967) (2)
- The Slender Human Word: Emerson's Artistry in Prose (1978) (2)
- Dickens and the Scandalmongers: Essays in Criticism (1965) (2)
- Six novels of the supernatural (1948) (1)
- Ambassadors for Christ: Seven American Preachers (1989) (1)
- Henry James Letters. Volume IV: 1895-1916 (1986) (1)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Portrait of a Balanced Soul (1974) (1)
- Fifty Great American Silent Films, 1912-1920: A Pictorial Survey (1980) (1)
- Walter de la Mare's "The Riddle": A Note on the Teaching of Literature with Allegorical Tendencies (1949) (1)
- The Man Charles Dickens: A Victorian Portrait (1992) (1)
- News of Tishnar (1941) (1)
- The Diary of Clara Crowninshield. A European Tour with Longfellow, 1835-1836@@@Mrs. Longfellow. The Letters and Journals of Fanny Appleton Longfellow@@@Eve among the Puritans (1958) (1)
- Our Contemporary, Herman Melville (1950) (1)
- American Profile, 1900-1909 (1982) (1)
- W. D. Howells: Selected Letters (1983) (1)
- Our Changing Literary Temper (1945) (0)
- Values in literature (0)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist (1966) (0)
- Editor's Fence (2010) (0)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Portrait of a Balanced Soul.@@@The Power and Form of Emerson's Thought. (1975) (0)
- Cavalcade of the English novel : with supplementary bibliography (1954) (0)
- As Far As Yesterday - Memories And Reflections (1968) (0)
- What's in a Novelthe Economic Novel in Americathe English Novel in Transition, 1885–1940Writer in Crisisthe Novel and Society, A Critical Study of the Modern Novel (1943) (0)
- Changes in young plantations of Scots Pine. (1940) (0)
- Eberswalde 1953. Roads to a site-adapted forestry. (1956) (0)
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Man behind the Legend@@@Poe's Literary Battles: The Critic in the Context of His Literary Milieu (1964) (0)
- An introduction to Dickens (1952) (0)
- Balzac, James, and the Realistic Novel@@@The Novels of Henry James (1985) (0)
- James's Daisy Miller (2010) (0)
- (The birch - Stepchild or a tree with future?) (1995) (0)
- The art, humor, and humanity of Mark Twain (1961) (0)
- Julia Marlowe: Portrait of an Actress (2013) (0)
- A tale of two cities : book the first recalled to life (1950) (0)
- The Development of American Romance: The Sacrifice of Realism (1985) (0)
- The root development of various stands. (1960) (0)
- Sarah Bernhardt: The Art Within the Legend by Gerda Taranow (review) (2013) (0)
- Our Contemporary Henry James (1948) (0)
- James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man. (1972) (0)
- The Contributors (1991) (0)
- Mark Twain, the man and his work (0)
- A Preface to Literature (1969) (0)
- The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce (1977) (0)
- Quercus borealis and its wood. (1955) (0)
- Marie Bashkirtseff in Retrospect (1944) (0)
- Matthiessen on James (1946) (0)
- An Introduction to Dickens / edited by Edward Wagenknecht (1952) (0)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Known and the Unknown. (1966) (0)
- Mass increase of game population was predetermined (1991) (0)
- No Scots pine for afforestation of fields (1992) (0)
- When I was a child : an anthology (1946) (0)
- The fireside book of romance (1948) (0)
- A Pictorial History of New England (1976) (0)
- John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. (1968) (0)
- Seven daughters of the theater : Jenny Lind, Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Julia Marlowe, Isadora Duncan, Mary Garden, Marilyn Monroe (1981) (0)
- Historical Views of Film (1971) (0)
- Thinning intensities in pure Douglas Fir. (1960) (0)
- Abraham Lincoln : his life, work, and character : an anthology of history and biography fiction, poetry, drama, and belles-lettres (1947) (0)
- W. D. Howells: Selected Letters. Volume V: 1902-1911@@@W. D. Howells: Selected Letters. Volume VI: 1912-1920 (1987) (0)
- Sir Walter Scott (1991) (0)
- Contributions to rationalizing silviculture. XIV. Rational initial spacings for Norway Spruce. (1970) (0)
- William Dean Howells: The Friendly Eye. (1970) (0)
- From Euphues to Ulysses (1932) (0)
- The letters of James Branch Cabell (1975) (0)
- Full Dinner Pail (1942) (0)
- The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:@@@Volume I, 1814-1836@@@Volume II, 1837-1843. (1967) (0)
- Cabell: A Reconsideration (1948) (0)
- A fireside book of yuletide tales (1948) (0)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne : man and writer (1961) (0)
- Lillian Gish : an interpretation (0)
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