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Stanley Thomas Williams's Degrees

Bachelors English University of Missouri
Masters English University of Missouri
PhD English University of Missouri

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Stanley Thomas Williams's Published Works

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The life of Washington Irving (1936) (39)
The Shores of Light. A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties (1952) (38)
Emerson and Asia (27)
The Spanish Background of American Literature. (1956) (16)
Washington Irving on the prairie : a narrative of a tour of the southwest in the year 1832 (1937) (6)
Diedrich Knickerbocker's A history of New-York (6)
The Hawthornes: The Story of Seven Generations of an American Family. (1952) (5)
The American City Novel (1954) (5)
The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920 (Main Currents of American Thought, Volume III) (1931) (5)
The American mind : selections from the literature of the United States (1938) (3)
The American Spirit in Letters (3)
The Pageant of America. (1950) (3)
Washington Irving's Notes on Fernán Caballero's Stories (1934) (3)
The First Version of the Writings of Washington Irving in Spanish (1930) (3)
American Non-Fiction 1900-1950 (1953) (3)
Carlyle’s Life of John Sterling (1920) (2)
Old Inns of Connecticut (1938) (2)
Hawthorne's Faust. A Study of the Devil Archtype (1954) (2)
Tamerlane and Other Poems@@@Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle@@@Nature (1836)@@@Edgar Allan Poe Letters and Documents in the Enoch Pratt Free Library (1941) (2)
Richard Cumberland, his life and dramatic works (2)
Hawthorne's "Dr. Grimshawe's Secret." (1955) (2)
The Parent of Schoolboy Novels (1921) (2)
Tour in Scotland, 1817 : and other manuscript notes (1)
Washington Irving and the Storrows: Letters from England and the Continent, 1821-1828 (1933) (1)
Some Versions of "Timon of Athens" on the Stage (1920) (1)
Hugh Miller's literary criticism (1926) (1)
Courses of Reading in American Literature with Bibliographies (1931) (1)
Walter Savage Landor as a Critic of Literature (1923) (1)
Notes while preparing sketch book &c. 1817 (1)
A bibliography of the writings of Washington Irving : a check list /compiled by Stanley T. Williams and Mary Allen Edge (1936) (1)
Washington Irving: A Bibliography (1934) (1)
Richard Cumberland's West Indian (1920) (1)
Moby Dick. Centennial Essays (1954) (1)
Two Unpublished Anecdotes by Fernan Caballero Preserved by Washington Irving (1934) (1)
Peter Irving's Journals. (1944) (1)
Six Letters of Jonathan Edwards to Joseph Bellamy (1928) (1)
Around the Horn : a journal, December 10, 1861 to March 25, 1862 (1944) (1)
The American Mind. (1939) (1)
Criticism of Fiction. A Study of Trends in the Atlantic Monthly 1857-1898 (1953) (1)
The Literary Reputation of Mark Twain from 1910 to 1950. A Critical Essay and a Bibliography (1955) (1)
The Literary Criticism of Sydney Smith (1923) (0)
Landor's Criticism in Poetry (1925) (0)
Washington Irving's Letters to Mary Kennedy (1934) (0)
Outline Studies in American Literature@@@Courses of Reading in American Literature, with bibliographies@@@A History of American Literature (1931) (0)
Washington Irving Mss (1925) (0)
Washington irving queries (1926) (0)
The Life of Washington Irving@@@A Bibliography of the Writings of Washington Irving: A Check List (1937) (0)
Sylvester Judd (1813-1853), Novelist of Transcendentalism. (1942) (0)
NOTE ON THE MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT OF THE JOURNAL (1931) (0)
Charles Stearns Wheeler, Friend of Emerson (1952) (0)
Washington Irving's First Stay in Paris (1930) (0)
La obra de William Faulkner (1955) (0)
A Lesser Hartford Wit, Dr. Elihu Hubbard Smith, 1771-1798 (0)
Hartley Coleridge as a Critic of Literature (1924) (0)
Journal of Washington Irving (1823-1824) (1931) (0)
William Faulkner. A Critical Appraisal (1952) (0)
Tradition and Rebellion: European Patterns in the Literature of America (1941) (0)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Papers of Francis Bennoch (1936) (0)
Washington Irving and Matilda Hoffman (1926) (0)
Washington Irving, Matilda Hoffman, and Emily Foster (1933) (0)
Washington Irving: Journal, 1803 (1935) (0)
XXVIII.—The Story of Gebir (1921) (0)
Letters form sunnyside and Spain (0)
The Journal of Emily Foster. (1939) (0)
A seventeenth-century Woman Surgeon (1909) (0)
The literature of Connecticut (1936) (0)
The Dramas of Richard Cumberland, 1779-1785 (1921) (0)
Some Spanish Influences on American Fiction Mark Twain to Willa Cather (1953) (0)
English Performances of Timon of Athens (0)
The Centennial Edition of Sidney Lanier. (1946) (0)
The Early Sentimental Dramas of Richard Cumberland (1921) (0)
Carlyle’s Past and Present: A Prophecy (1922) (0)
The Sources of Landor's Gebir (1921) (0)
Papers Read by Title (1925) (0)
American Literature: An Introduction@@@American Literature. (1934) (0)
Emerson: The Enraptured Yankee (0)
Sketches from Eighteenth Century America. (0)

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