Literary Criticism

Some German Women and Their Salons

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Mary Hargrave


German women living at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century have paved the way to modernity for the female gender in Germany. Mary Hargr…

Little Blue Book 646: The Spirit of Brazilian Literature

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Isaac Goldberg


One of the many Little Blue Books published to make learning available to all. These were short, informative, and inexpensive books that dis…

History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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Randolph Silliman Bourne


A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

Poland: A Study of the Land, People and Literature

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George Brandes


"I had accepted an invitation to deliver three lectures in French in the town-hall of Warsaw." Thus begins the description of the …

Charles Dickens and Music

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James T. Lightwood


This is a detailed exploration of the references to music in the novels of Dickens: songs, instrumental pieces, performers, composers, and m…

Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística

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Julio Cejador y Frauca and Julio Cejador Y Frauca


Publicada en 1907 y dedicada a su “querido discípulo” Ortega y Gasset, esta colección de ensayos consiste en “articulejos” pub…

Ovid And His Influence

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Edward Kennard Rand


In this early entry into the Our Debt To Greece and Rome series, Rand provides a lively summary and commentary on all of Ovid's poetical wor…

The American Newspaper

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Will Irwin


The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by Will Irwin from 1909 to 1910 spanning fifteen articles that discuss th…

Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study

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Hamilton Fyfe


A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here …

On Reading The Bible

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…

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