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John Matthews Manly , Edith Rickert Contemporary American Literature

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John Matthews Manly (September 2, 1865 — April 2, 1940) was an American professor of English literature and philology at the University of Chicago. Manly specialized in the study of the works of William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer. His eight-volume work, The Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940), written in collaboration with his former student Edith Rickert, has been cited as a definitive study of Chaucer's works.[1] Manley was born in Virginia the son of Charles Manly, a Baptist minister and university president. He attended Staunton Military Academy and Greenville Military Institute. [more]

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Caroline F. E. Spurgeon Mysticism in English Literature

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Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon (24 October 1869, India – 24 October 1942, Tucson, Arizona) was an English literary critic. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dresden and at King's College London and University College London.Caroline Spurgeon is known as the first female university professor in London, the second in England. She was actually the first female professor involved in English literature, and the first fully accepted in England at all. From May 1900 she lectured on English Literature in London. She became a member of the staff of Bedford College, London, in 1901.[1] She was an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and in 1911 wrote a thesis in Paris on Chaucer devant la critique, and in 1929 in London on 500 years of Chaucer criticism and allusion. In 1936 she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where she died, apparently on her 73rd birthday from undisclosed causes. Spurgeon, Virginia Gildersleeve, Meta Tuke, Lilian Clapham and others enjoyed interweaving intimate relationships and shared their summers (see - Our Story) [more]

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ISRAEL ABRAHAMS CHAPTERS ON JEWISH LITERATURE

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Israel Abrahams (b. London, November 26, 1858; d. Cambridge, October 6, 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896). Life and writings[edit] He was educated at Jews' College, where his father Barnett Abrahams served as principal, and at University College, London. In 1881, he received the degree of MA from the University of London. Abrahams taught secular subjects as well as homiletics at Jews' College, and was appointed senior tutor of that institution in 1900. He was a forceful lecturer and an earnest lay preacher. As honorary secretary of the Jewish Historical Society of England and as a member of the Committee for Training Jewish Teachers, he was very active. He was also a member of the Committee of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and of several other institutions of the community. Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Judaism, which was published in 1895. His chief works were Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1898). In 1889, he became joint editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review and helped materially to raise the prestige of the publication. He was a prolific contributor to periodical literature, and was especially well known for his articles on literary subjects, which appeared weekly in the Jewish Chronicle under the title of "Books and Bookmen." He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). In 1902, after teaching for several years at Jews' College, Abrahams succeeded Solomon Schechter, who was moving to New York to head the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as reader in Talmudics at Cambridge University. In 1914, he published A Companion to the Authorised Prayer Book, a helpful commentary on and supplement to the prayer book edited by Simeon Singer. Singer himself had intended to write such a work, but died before he had progressed very far. Revised editions appeared in 1922 and 1932. In 1922 he was invited to deliver the Schweich Lecture of the British Academy. The lectures were published under the title Campaigns in Palestine from Alexander the Great [more]

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Conrad Hjalmar Nordby The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature

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The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby. It should not be hard [more]

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Conrad Hjalmar Nordby The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature

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First, let us understand what the Old Norse literature was that has been sending out this constantly increasing [more]

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Gustav Karpeles Jewish Literature and Other Essays

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Gustav Karpeles (November 11, 1848, Ivanovice na Hané, Margraviate of Moravia[1] – 1909) was a German Jewish historian of [more]

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Robert Huntington Fletcher A History Of English Literature

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Foreword. The Two Earliest Of The Nine Main Divisions Of English Literature Are By Far The Longest--Taken Together Are Longer Than All The Others Combined--But We Shall Pass Rather Rapidly Over Them. This Is Partly Because The Amount Of Thoroughly Great Literature Which They Produced Is Small, And Partly Because For Present-Day Readers It Is In Effect A Foreign Literature, Written In Early Forms Of English Or In Foreign Languages, So That To-Day It Is Intelligible Only Through Special Study Or In Translation. [more]

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Robert Huntington Fletcher A History of English Literature

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The two earliest of the nine main divisions of English Literature are by far the longest--taken together are [more]

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Arthur A. MacDonell A History of Sanskrit Literature

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Since the Renaissance there has been no event of such world-wide significance in the history of culture as the [more]

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Arthur A. MacDonell A HISTORY OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE

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Literature in Sanskrit begins with the spoken or sung literature of the Vedas c.3rd to 2nd millennium BCE (Bronze Age India, Indus Valley Civilization), and continues with the oral tradition of the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to late Antiquity (roughly the 2nd to 8th centuries CE). Indian literary production saw a late bloom in the 11th century before declining after 1100 CE, hastened by the Islamic conquest of India, due to the destruction of ancient seats of learning such as Taxila and Nalanda Univesity. There are contemporary efforts towards revival, with events like the "All-India Sanskrit Festival" (since 2002) holding composition contests. [more]

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