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Thomas Boyd
Author | : Brian Bruce |
Publsiher | : The University of Akron Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781931968331 |
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Mentored by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis and published under the renowned Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins, Thomas Boyd attained only modest success as a novelist and biographer. He is known most widely for his World War I novel Through the Wheat, which critics, praising its realistic depiction of war and battle, compared to the Red Badge of Courage. How does a writer like Boyd, with his prominent literary friends, political ideals, professional aspirations, complicated personal life, and early death, fall so easily into obscurity? In this first full biography of Thomas Boyd, Brian Bruce explores the events of Boyd's life and rescues him from the realm of insignificance. The 1920s were a magical and very attractive time for critics and historians of American literature. Hollywood and the radio would soon end the careers enjoyed by many writers, like Boyd, and the nature of the book market would change forever in ways that mark the novel's descent from a privileged position of cultural importance or influence. Richly based on correspondence, this book not only illuminates a forgotten writer, but also captures the publishing world at a mercurial peak.
David French Boyd
Author | : Germaine M. Reed |
Publsiher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1999-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807124699 |
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David Boyd's biography is the story of one man's dedicated struggle to protect and preserve Louisiana's fledgling state university from the cumulative effects of war, Reconstruction, political hostility, and parochial greed. Boyd fought hard to promote his vision of higher education among a largely antagonistic or apathetic citizenry. He died, bitter and disillusioned, in 1899, without realizing his dream. But his life was not wasted. Clearly those who governed the university in more prosperous days owned much of their success to the devotion and self-sacrifice of this heroic figure.
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
Author | : John Burke,Sir Bernard Burke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1026 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Gentry |
ISBN | : BL:A0024401147 |
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Newberry County South Carolina
Author | : George Leland Summer |
Publsiher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
ISBN | : 9780806308722 |
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The opening chapters of this encyclopedic treatment deal with the Newberry County's formation, early settlers, soldiers, notable citizens, government institutions, and social and economic development, while later chapters are given over to biographies, cemetery inscriptions, family reminiscences and folklore. At the heart of the book is a long section devoted to genealogies of pioneer families of Newberry County.
American Writers and World War I
Author | : David A. Rennie |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198858812 |
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Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway, American Writers and World War I argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response to developments in their professional and personal lives. Recent research has focused on constituencies of identity--such as gender, race, and politics--registered in American Great War writing. Rather than being dominated by their perceived membership of such socio-political categories, this study argues that writers reacted to and represented the war in complex ways which were frequently linked to the exigencies of maintaining a career as a professional author. War writing was implicated in, and influenced by, wider cultural forces such as governmental censorship, the publishing business, advertising, and the Hollywood film industry. American Writers and World War I argues that even authors' hallmark 'anti-war' works are in fact characterized by an awareness of the war's nuanced effects on society and individuals. By tracking authors' war writing throughout their entire careers--in well-known texts, autobiography, correspondence, and neglected works--this study contends that writers' reactions were multifaceted, and subject to change--in response to their developments as writers and individuals. This work also uncovers the hitherto unexplored importance of American cultural and literary precedents which offered writers means of assessing the war. Ultimately, the volume argues, American World War I writing was highly personal, complex, and idiosyncratic.
The Record of the House of Gournay
Author | : Daniel Gurney |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
ISBN | : YALE:39002006511357 |
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The record of the house of Gournay With
Author | : Daniel Gurney |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600024135 |
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The Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom
Author | : George Crawfurd |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1716 |
Genre | : Nobility |
ISBN | : OXFORD:N11683599 |
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