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...Gary Bullert Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Lewis Mumford: Prophet of the New Age Gary Bullert Lewis Mumford is widely celebrated as one of America s most distin­ guished men of letters in the twentieth century. An active participant in the literary-intellectual battles of his...

...C. Hugh Holman Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1979 . Pages xii , 292 ; index. $17.50 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 340 The South Atlantic Quarterly After analyzing the structural organization and manpower...

...Lewis Leary Letters of Sherwood Anderson . Selected and edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jones Howard Mumford in association with Rideout Walter B. . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1953 . Pp. xxii , 478 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press...

...Eddy Dow Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Lewis Mumford s Passage to India: From the First to the Later Phase Eddy Dow In 1975 Lewis Mumford marked his eightieth birthday by publishing his twenty-seventh book. As remarkable as it is that a contemporary writer with Mumford s...

... instilled into them. At Malangali school, the headmaster, W. Bryant Mumford, was allowed full scope by the director to initiate a quite radical experi­ ment in traditional education. He had already tried some of his schemes before he came to Malangali. At Dar-es-Salaam school he had asked waziri, leading...

... Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979. Pages xii, 292; index. $17.50. Howard Mumford Jones has had a long and remarkably successful career as a teacher, a scholar, an administrator, an academic states­ man, and, perhaps most important of all, a definer...

...Arlin Turner The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800–1870 . By Charvat William . Edited by Bruccoli Matthew J. . Foreword by Jones Howard Mumford . Columbus : The Ohio State University Press , 1968 . Pp. xviii , 327 . $7.00 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University...

... Literature Section Hubbell Medallion to Howard Mumford Jones, and I said, Howard Mumford Jones has been a calm and effective voice for hu­ mane learning in America for more than four decades. . . . The literary history of the past fifty years bears his solid and healthy stamp and we are the better...

... in the language of speech and thought just what The Charnel Rose. By Conrad Aiken. Boston: The Four Seas Co. $1.25 net. Gargoyles. By Howard Mumford Jones. Boston: The Cornhill Co. $1.25. Streets and Faces. By Scudder Middleton. Arlington, N. J.: The Little Book Publisher. Poems of New England and Old Spain...

... Raymond Weaver and Lewis Mumford accused Hawthorne of coldness and regarded the relationship of the two men as a tragic disappointment to Mel­ ville. To Mumford, especially, Hawthorne was the villain in Melville s tragedy: Hawthorne committed, Mumford said, the un­ pardonable sin of friendship when he...

... Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Among the Paperbacks Besides some choice fiction, The New American Library (501 Madison Ave., N. Y. 10022) has reprinted Peter F. Bruckner s The Concept of the Corporation (Mentor Executive Library, 75 cents); Lewis Mumford s The Highway...

... Mumford. The working critic is best when he considers an author s work in connection with his life, dis­ cussing a sizeable chunk of that work in the light of a new biography. Sale s pieces on Ring Lardner and, more recently, John Steinbeck in the New York Review of Books are more representative of his...

... oppressive. DUKE UNIVERSITY ALAN K. MANCHESTER Other Books of Interest . . . Events have changed Howard Mumford Jones s The Theory of American Literature (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965, $4.95) into an epilogue. When first published in 1948 it came, unknow­ ingly, at a turning point...

... York : Cambridge University Press . Mumford Lewis . (1934) 2010 . Technics and Civilization . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Parikka Jussi . 2015 . A Geology of Media . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Pasquinelli Matteo . 2015 . “Italian...

... and criticism results in the bulk of this casually assembled and edited collecton: nearly half of it is devoted to recent American fiction (princi­ pally the novel), a quarter to criticism, and the rest to writing on the city by such authors as Lewis Mumford. The working critic is best when he considers...

...John Braeman Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 The Historian as Activist: Charles A. Beard and the New Deal John Braeman Charles A. Beard was probably the most influential and widely read American historian of the twentieth century. Lewis Mumford acknowl­ edged him in 1945...

... Other Books of Interest . . . Events have changed Howard Mumford Jones s The Theory of American Literature (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965, $4.95) into an epilogue. When first published in 1948 it came, unknow­ ingly, at a turning point. As the Preface to 1965 Edition now per­ ceives...

... of Scot), you might receive a more impartial estimate of my book from someone who knows the South and Miss Glasgow s works. (May I suggest the literary critic, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., who has written on both Miss Glasgow and James Branch Cabell; the historian, C. Vann Woodward; or Howard Mumford Jones...

..., the excessive atten­ tion of the twentieth century seems to have compensated amply for the shameful neglect of the nineteenth. Beginning with Raymond Weaver s Mariner and. Mystic in 1921, Melville has had the concen­ trated attention of such writers as Lewis Mumford (1929), Richard Chase (1949), and Newton...

...Jay B. Hubbell Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE OLD SOUTH IN LITERARY HISTORIES* JAY B. HUBBELL <K THE THEORY of American Literature had its origin in a Z series of lectures which Howard Mumford Jones delivered at Cornell University in December, 1947, but it is a more...