Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900 – May 24, 2004) was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th century American literature. He wrote and edited many books on literature and movies, and taught for many years at various universities, including the University of Chicago and Boston University. He also contributed many book reviews and other writings to such newspapers as the Boston Herald, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune and to such magazines as The Yale Review and The Atlantic Monthly.[1]
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Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900 – May 24, 2004) was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th century American literature...
command of the language. In his 1983 book, The Novels of Henry James, EdwardWagenknecht offers an assessment that echoes Theodora Bosanquet's: "To be completely...
scene between Isabel and Goodwood has been especially applauded. As EdwardWagenknecht noted, James "makes it as clear as any modern novelist could make...
included in The Fireside Book of Romance (c. 1948), edited by C. EdwardWagenknecht. The Inn of Disenchantment was published in 1917 by the Houghton Mifflin...
riot of the carnivalesque". Similarly, the literary and film scholar EdwardWagenknecht described the film as a work "satirizing the pretensions of professors...
Norton & Company, 2003) ISBN 0-393-97710-2 The Tales of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984) ISBN 0-8044-2957-X...
with their knees bent under them like travelers in a stage-coach. — EdwardWagenknecht, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist. (1966)...
p. 265. EdwardWagenknecht (ed.) The Letters of James Branch Cabell (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975) pp. 33-4. EdwardWagenknecht (ed.) The...
Cumberland Romance (1920) and The Little Clown (1921). Film historian EdwardWagenknecht provides this retrospective observation regarding Minter’s film legacy:...
SHINES". The New York Times. 3 May 1981. The Novels of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983) ISBN 0-8044-2959-6...
seem to have conceived the necessity of Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups". EdwardWagenknecht also discussed fantasy elements in both children's and adult fiction...
Classics, 2009) ISBN 978-1840221817 The Novels of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983) ISBN 0-8044-2959-6...
dimensions in the cinema and raised it to a level of great tragic art.”—EdwardWagenknecht in The Movies in the Age of Innocence (1962). Broken Blossoms premiered...
& Company, 1994) ISBN 0-393-96314-4 The Novels of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983) ISBN 0-8044-2959-6...
University Press 1990) ISBN 0-19-504379-0 The Tales of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984) ISBN 0-8044-2957-X...
Norton & Company, 2003) ISBN 0-393-97710-2 The Tales of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1984) ISBN 0-8044-2957-X...
from the original on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2007-05-13. Quoted in EdwardWagenknecht, Cavalcade of the English Novel (New York, 1943), 377 Lancelyn Green...
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essay on Blackwood's work in S. T. Joshi's The Weird Tale (1990). EdwardWagenknecht analyses Blackwood's work in his book Seven Masters of Supernatural...
and his attitude toward the Puritans unreservedly affirmative," and EdwardWagenknecht that Hawthorne presents the "struggle of his ancestors against their...
the most distinguished works of the silent period. Gish biographer EdwardWagenknecht wrote: Like Miss Gish herself, Sjöström was a great human being as...
Greenwood Press, 1989) ISBN 0-313-25846-5 The Novels of Henry James by EdwardWagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983) ISBN 0-8044-2959-6...
Sinclair Lewis, the last both an admirer and critic of Derleth. As EdwardWagenknecht wrote in Cavalcade of the American Novel, "What Mr. Derleth has that...
which were produced between opera seasons. Literary and film critic EdwardWagenknecht describes Geraldine Farrar as “the most illustrious artist Paramount...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation. 2003. p. 382. ISBN 0-7614-7314-9. EdwardWagenknecht (1982). American profile, 1900-1909. Univ of Massachusetts Press....
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