...Christof Wegelin Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 DICKENS AND IRVING: THE PROBLEM OF INFLUENCE By CHRISTOFWEGELIN In a recent number of this journal, Mr. Ernest Boll devoted an article to the influence...

...George Snell Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 WASHINGTON IRVING: A REVALUATION By GEORGESNELL Poe remarked, in 1838, “Irving is much overrated, and a nice dis- tinction might be drawn between his just and his surreptitious...

.... LISELOTTEDIECKMANN Washington University Washington Irving: An American Study, 1802-1832. By WILLIAML. HEDGES.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, Goucher College Series, 1965. xiv + 274 pp. $5.95. Since 1935, when Stanley T. Williams published his definitive two volume biography, Irving...

...Ernest Boll Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 CHARLES DICKENS AND WASHINGTON IRVING By ERNESTBOLL Of all the curiosities in the history of literature, none has struck me as more remarkable than the indifference that has rewarded...

... of llalance, for his coinnients on Irving and Hryarit are rarely as wide-ranging or detailed, are frequently repetitious and apologetic, and lack hoth the commitnient arid the freshness of perception which characterize his discussions of Cooper. In The Pictorial Mode Kirige rather takes...

...Edward B. Irving, Jr. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Neil D. Isaacs. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1968. xiii + 197 pp. $7.75. ...

...Li Tonglu Originally proposed by Irving Babbitt and Elmer More, and inspired by Buddhist and Confucian philosophies, New Humanism opposed the moral decline fostered by relativist and determinist beliefs and by an increasingly materialistic American society during the early twentieth century...

...Irving Ribner William Perry. Edited from the original Quartos with Introduction and Notes: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1950. Pp. x + 346. $3.75. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 REVIEWS ?he Plays of Nathan Field. Edited...

...Irving Ribner B. Tomlinson T.. Cambridge: At the University Press; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964. viii + 293 pp. $6.00. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 334 REVIEWS sis Mary Dichmann finds on Arthur...

...Irving Putter Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 LECONTE DE LISLE AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY A CAVEAT By IRVINGPUTTER In connection with my work on the latter part of Leconte de Lisle’s life, I recently needed...

...Irving Ribner Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GENTILLET’S CONTRE-MACHIAVEL By IRVINGRIBNER Since the appearance of Edward Meyer’s great study,‘ it has been accepted as coninionplace among literary...

...Irving Putter Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 LECONTE DE LISLE’S ABORTIVE AMBITIONS UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE By IRVINGPUTTER Despite a seemingly widespread disparagement of the Sainte-Beuve critical method, much...

...Irving Putter Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 LAMARTINE AND THE GENESIS OF QAIN By IRVINGPUTTER Ever since the publication half a century ago of tlie reiiiarkable study by Henri Bern& on the literary origins of Leconte de Lisle’s...

...Irving Ribner Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 BOLINGBROKE, A TRUE MACHIAVELLIAN By IRVINGRIBNER The Elizabethan manuscript translation of The Prince, edited by Hardin Craig,l calls attention to the need for investigation of a new...

... appeared in Germany in 1961 under the title Das Murchen und die Moderne. It is good to have it available in Mary B. Corcoran’s unusually sensitive English translation. LISELOTTEDIECKMANN Washington University Washington Irving: An American...

... of Irving’s A History of Neu, York in Poe’s ‘The Devil in the Belfry’” (Studies in American Fiction, 10 [1982]: 93-loo), for example, has recently claimed that Poe’s major targets were Washington Irving’s A History of New York and Irving’s nostalgia. KATRINA E. BACHINGER...

...Sanford Pinsker Irving H. Buchen. New York: New York University Press; London: University of London Press 1968. xv + 239 pp. $6.95, cloth; $2.25, paper. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 GERHARD BAUMGAERTEL 467 of a systematic...

... other collaborators have steered quite successfully a course between the Scylla of inclusiveness and the Charybdis of exclusiveness. They have chosen certain intellectual and social situations or matrixes for analysis, have designated eighteen men (Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emer...

...., pp. 115-22; and W. H. Irving, John Guy, Favorite of the Wits (Dur- ham, 1940)’ pp. 82-90. 6 See for example Swift, Journal to Stella, ed. Aitken, p. 482. HoTt Trowbridge 81 as Pope’s were, in the sixth part of Tonson’s Poetical Miscellanies ( 1709...

... Irving, W. J. Turner, Horace Shipp, and Maurice Baring all agreed. Irving, in fact, waxed so enthusiastic that he later read a paper on Shelley as a dratnatist before the Royal Society of Literature : ‘The Cenci’ was written for the theatre and is, in all respects, a stage play. Dowden...