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South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (2): 268–269.
Published: 01 April 1976
...Edwin H. Cady The Early Lives of Melville: Nineteenth-Century Biographical Sketches and Their Authors . By Sealts Merton M. Jr. Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1974 . Pp. xiii , 280 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 268 The South...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1975) 74 (1): 134.
Published: 01 January 1975
...Benjamin Franklin Fisher, IV Miss May Sinclair, Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction . By Boll Theophilus E. M. . Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , 1973 . Pp. 332 . $18.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 134 The South...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1949) 48 (3): 489–490.
Published: 01 July 1949
...P. F. Baum Arthur Quiller-Couch: A Biographical Study of Q . By Brittain F. . Cambridge : At the University Press ; New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. xi , 174 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 489 the prodigious Tolstoi...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (3): 441–443.
Published: 01 July 1951
...Merle M. Bevington Charles Dickens: A Biographical and Critical Study . By Lindsay Jack . New York : Philosophical Library , 1950 . Pp. 459 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 44i critical analysis of both the prose and verse of a writer whom...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1956) 55 (3): 359–370.
Published: 01 July 1956
...Harry R. Stevens CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING: TRENDS AND PROBLEMS* Harry R. Stevens TWO CONTRASTING features impress the reader of con­ temporary American biographies. One is the wide variety of subjects, men and women of every period of American history, of every occupation...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1972) 71 (3): 456–458.
Published: 01 July 1972
...Alexander Welsh Lockhart as Romantic Biographer . By Hart Francis R. . Edinburgh University Press , 1971 ; and Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company . Pp. 299 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 456 The South Atlantic Quarterly use of the picaro...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1930) 29 (4): 448.
Published: 01 October 1930
...W. T. Laprade Froude & Carlyle . By Dunn Waldo H. . London, New York, and Toronto : Longmans, Green and Company , 1930 . xx , 365 pp. Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly AN ENTHUSIASTIC BIOGRAPHER Froude & Carlyle. By Waldo H...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1925) 24 (1): 73–85.
Published: 01 January 1925
...Newman I. White Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 The Beautiful Angel and His Biographers* Newman I. White Trinity College Literary biography is a problem whose difficulties are still far from solution. Before the seventeenth century it was mainly a problem of insufficient data...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1940) 39 (1): 50–57.
Published: 01 January 1940
...Frances M. Haydon Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 OLIVER GOLDSMITH AS A BIOGRAPHER FRANCES M. HAYDON ALTHOUGH Oliver Goldsmith s place in literature is now jlJl secure because of his well-known novel, The Vicar of Wake­ field, which influenced Goethe in his youth; because...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (1): 110.
Published: 01 January 1980
...Mark W. Booth Samuel Johnson, Biographer . By Folkenflik Robert . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1978 . Pp. 237 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 110 The South Atlantic Quarterly Samuel Johnson, Biographer. By Robert Folkenflik. Ithaca: Cornell...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1954) 53 (4): 508–520.
Published: 01 October 1954
...Frederick B. Tolles Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 THE BIOGRAPHER S CRAFT Frederick B. Tolies WHATEVER ELSE it is, biography is an art. It is, of course, other things too. First of all, it is an exercise in historical research, requiring great industry, great ingenuity, great...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (4): 607.
Published: 01 October 1951
...Arthur B. Ferguson A Biographer’s Notebook . By Bolitho Hector . New York : Macmillan , 1950 . Pp. 213 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 607 which books are the most significant and gives four typical stories of navigation, seamanship...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (3): 438–439.
Published: 01 July 1960
...Frederick B. Tolies Adventures of a Biographer . By Bowen Catherine Drinker . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1959 . Pp. xiii , 235 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 438 The South Atlantic Quarterly too often more interested in shocking his readers...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (4): 500–505.
Published: 01 October 1957
...Robert F. Durden Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 WOODROW WILSON AND HIS NEW BIOGRAPHERS* Robert F. Durden HE SCHOLARLY presidential candidate of the Democratic JL party brooded aloud in 1912 in a campaign speech concerning his future fate at the hands of historians: I pity...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1910) 9 (4): 320–326.
Published: 01 October 1910
...Samuel A. Ashe Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Judge Martin s Version of the Mecklenburg Declaration By Samuel A. Ashe, Editor of the Biographical History of North Carolina. Author of a History of North Carolina. Etc. There was cherished among the people of Mecklenburg county...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (1): 203–213.
Published: 01 January 2024
... no previous experience of participation in social and political organizations. It explores this event's strength in triggering contentious actions on the urban margins, and repression by the police‐criminal apparatus of the state. Delving into the ethical and biographical dispositions facilitating...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (4): 862–872.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Diren Yeşil Sincar Educational institutions are places of identity formation and reformation, contributing differently to existing identity politics. In the author's biographical narrative interviews with people who position themselves as Kurds, conducted as part of her PhD project, “Experiences...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2024) 123 (1): 214–224.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., the essay reveals under-explored dimensions of the anticolonial character of this critical event in Chile's history of the present. Lepin's case shows the entanglement of a long history of dispossession and resistance of the Mapuche people with a biographical story of social marginalization, political...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1958) 57 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 April 1958
..., 289, xii. $5.00. All biographers, says Professor Garraty, must be historical and scientific in that they aim at truth and depend upon verifiable evidence. At the same time they must be imaginative and artistic, because insight and felicity of expression are essential if the full three-dimensional...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1956) 55 (1): 73–86.
Published: 01 January 1956
... methods of research and his respect for truth with the novelist s concern for writing as an art and his interest in the convincing por­ trayal of human character. It is the purpose here to examine the methods of biographers in an attempt to answer the question: How should one write a biography...