Richard Altick
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- Bachelors English University of Iowa
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Daniel Altick was an American literary scholar, known for his pioneering contributions to Victorian Studies, as well as for championing both the joys and the rigorous methods of literary research.
Richard Altick's Published Works
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- The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900. (1958) (626)
- The Shows of London (1979) (486)
- To be in England (1969) (144)
- Victorian People and Ideas (1974) (114)
- : The Origins of the Popular Press in England, 1855-1914 (1978) (98)
- Selling Art in Georgian London: The Rise of Arthur Pond (1983) (65)
- The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel (1991) (55)
- Lives and Letters: A History of Literary Biography in England and America (1979) (52)
- Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature (1973) (48)
- Victorian studies in scarlet (1970) (39)
- Punch : the lively youth of a British institution, 1841-1851 (1998) (36)
- The art of literary research (1964) (30)
- Writers, Readers, and Occasions: Selected Essays on Victorian Literature and Life (1989) (28)
- The Scholar Adventurers (1950) (24)
- Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 (1985) (24)
- Preface to critical reading (1946) (19)
- : The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815 (1964) (17)
- Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the "Oxford English Dictionary." (1978) (13)
- Victorian Literature and Society: Essays Presented to Richard D. Altick (1984) (12)
- Symphonic Imagery in Richard II (1947) (10)
- Browning's Roman murder story : a reading of "The ring and the book" (1971) (9)
- The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. Second Edition. (1960) (9)
- : A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers (1961) (8)
- Varieties of Readers' Response: The Case of 'Dombey and Son' (1980) (8)
- Robert Browning, The ring and the book (1981) (7)
- The Cowden Clarkes (1949) (6)
- Dion Boucicault Stages Mary Barton (1959) (4)
- The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers (1975) (4)
- "A Grammarian's Funeral": Browning's Praise of Folly? (1963) (4)
- : Early Public Libraries: A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain before 1850 (1966) (4)
- The nineteenth century and after (1789-1939) (1948) (4)
- The British Working Class Reader 1790-1848; Literacy and Social Tension. Robert Kiefer Webb (1956) (3)
- Browning's mind and art (1968) (3)
- Mark Twain’s Despair: An Explanation in Terms of His Humanity (1935) (2)
- Browning's "Karshish" and St. Paul (1957) (2)
- Selective bibliography for the study of English and American literature (1975) (2)
- Anachronisms in Middlemarch: A Note (1978) (2)
- The Story of Street Literature: Forerunner of the Popular Press. Robert CollisonThe History of Street Literature: The Story of Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, Proclamations, News-Sheets, Election Bills, Tracts, Pamphlets, Cocks, Catchpennies, and Other Ephemera. Leslie Shepard (1974) (2)
- Hamlet and the Odor of Mortality (1954) (2)
- Browning's Voices in “The Ring and the Book”: A Study of Method and Meaning (1970) (2)
- The Scholar's Paradise (1954) (1)
- Guide to doctoral dissertations in Victorian literature, 1886-1958 (1960) (1)
- The Ephrata Cloisters in 1759 (1939) (1)
- Square-Rigger on a Modern Mission (1943) (1)
- Letters of Thomas Hood: From the Dilke Papers in the British Museum (1946) (1)
- Mr. Cambridge serenades the Berry sisters (1942) (1)
- Book Review:The Novelist and Mammon: Literary Responses to the World of Commerce in the Nineteenth Century Norman Russell (1988) (1)
- Dr. Campbell's Diary of a Visit to England in 1775 (1948) (1)
- Biography, the Criticism of Biography, and Comparative Literature@@@The Art of Biography@@@Lives and Letters: A History of Literary Biography in England and America@@@Biography Past and Present (1966) (1)
- Writers, readers, and occasions (1989) (1)
- Dickens and America, Some Unpublished Letters (1949) (1)
- The War of Nerves: Campus Version (1943) (1)
- The master of hounds (1993) (1)
- The Marvelous Child of the English Stage (1945) (1)
- "Cope's Tobacco Plant": An Episode in Victorian Journalism (1951) (1)
- Chapter Five. The Novel Experience (2000) (0)
- Chapter Four. From Fact to Fiction (2000) (0)
- Robert Browning: A Bibliography, 1830-1950. Leslie Nathan Broughton , Clark Sutherland Northup , Robert Pearsall (1954) (0)
- The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public 1800-1900 (1958) (0)
- asa briggs. Victorian Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press or B. T. Batsford, London. 1988. Pp. 448. $29.95 (1990) (0)
- : The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, Vol. III. . Walter E. Houghton, Esther Rhoads Houghton. (1979) (0)
- "Conveyers" and Fortune's Buckets in Richard II (1946) (0)
- Pride and Negligence: The History of the Boswell Papers (1982) (0)
- Teaching Freshmen to Read (1948) (0)
- Book Review:The Profession of English Letters J. W. Saunders (1966) (0)
- Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives ed. by James Paradis, Thomas Postlewait (1982) (0)
- High Victorian Culture. . David Morse. (1994) (0)
- Book Review:The First Five Lives of Annie Besant Arthur H. Nethercot (1961) (0)
- A Neglected Source for Literary Biography (1949) (0)
- The Public Arts: British Popular Culture: I (1958) (0)
- The Victorians and Their Reading by Amy Cruse (1964) (0)
- The Victorian period (1957) (0)
- When did keats meet Leigh Hunt (1944) (0)
- Diction and style in writing (1967) (0)
- Chapter Three. The Press Responds (2000) (0)
- The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846. Elvan Kintner , Robert Browning , Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (1971) (0)
- Maryland Haymaking (1943) (0)
- Chapter Two. Deadly Encounters (2000) (0)
- Franks and Punishment in an Old Pennsylvania College (1937) (0)
- : The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 . Walter E. Houghton. (1967) (0)
- Book Reviews : ELLEGARD, ALVAR. Darwin and the General Reader. The Reception of arDwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodica Press, 1859-1872. Gothenburg Studies in English, VIII. Göteborgl 1958. pp. 394 (1959) (0)
- : The Stature of Dickens: A Centenary Bibliography. . Joseph Gold. (1972) (0)
- A little bit of luck (2002) (0)
- : The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, Volume II. . Walter E. Houghton. (1973) (0)
- James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 (1985) (0)
- Matthew Arnold: A Life. Park Honan (1982) (0)
- Dickens and Popular Entertainment. . Paul Schlicke. (1986) (0)
- Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1807–1831 (1952) (0)
- Charles Dickens and His Publishers by Robert L. Patten (1980) (0)
- Chapter One. The Dawning Age of Sensation (2000) (0)
- The Comedy of Culture and Anarchy (1989) (0)
- Book Review:The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, vol. 4 Walter E. Houghton, Esther Rhoads Houghton, Jean Harris Slingerland, Wellesley (1989) (0)
- Literary Scholars in Business Suits (2016) (0)
- The Mysteries of Paris and London. . Richard Maxwell. (1993) (0)
- Phantom and fugitive (2003) (0)
- Was Lowell an Historical Critic (1942) (0)
- A Book for Freshmen: Preface to Critical Reading (1947) (0)
- A people's conscience (1952) (0)
- Symphonic Imagery in Richard II Author ( s ) : (2017) (0)
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