Spiller, Robert Ernest 1896-1988
Overview
Works: | 313 works in 1,618 publications in 8 languages and 31,242 library holdings |
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Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Bibliographies Personal correspondence Reference works Literary criticism Essays Lectures Literature Poetry Speeches |
Roles: | Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction, Contributor, Writer of accompanying material, Honoree, Compiler, Commentator for written text, Annotator, Speaker |
Classifications: | PS88, 810.9 |
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Most widely held works about
Robert Ernest Spiller
- The lake gun by James Fenimore Cooper( )
- by Literary Fellowship of Philadelphia( )
- Curriculum and Lecture Notes Collection by University of Pennsylvania( )
- Papers by Carl L Anderson( )
- American Literature records( )
- Norman Cousins collection of Henry Seidel Canby by Norman Cousins( Visual )
- Impressions of Duke University: July 1927 by Robert Ernest Spiller( )
- Louis Decimus Rubin papers by Louis D Rubin( )
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Most widely held works by
Robert Ernest Spiller
Literary history of the United States by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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275 editions published between 1946 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 4,795 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This survey covers the history of United States literature from prominent writers including Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, William Dean Howells, Sidney Lanier, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Henry Adams, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, and Eugene O'Neil
275 editions published between 1946 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 4,795 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This survey covers the history of United States literature from prominent writers including Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, William Dean Howells, Sidney Lanier, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Henry Adams, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, and Eugene O'Neil
The cycle of American literature : an essay in historical criticism by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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122 editions published between 1955 and 1996 in 6 languages and held by 2,120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Historical criticism which discusses American literature in two cycles-one beginning in the new eastern colonies and ending with Melville and Whitman another beginning on the western frontier and maturing with Eliot and Faulkner
122 editions published between 1955 and 1996 in 6 languages and held by 2,120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Historical criticism which discusses American literature in two cycles-one beginning in the new eastern colonies and ending with Melville and Whitman another beginning on the western frontier and maturing with Eliot and Faulkner
James Fenimore Cooper by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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29 editions published between 1936 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
James Fenimore Cooper - American Writers 48 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions
29 editions published between 1936 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
James Fenimore Cooper - American Writers 48 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions
The American literary revolution, 1783-1837 by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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33 editions published between 1967 and 1981 in English and Spanish and held by 1,313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
33 editions published between 1967 and 1981 in English and Spanish and held by 1,313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fenimore Cooper, critic of his times by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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30 editions published between 1929 and 1993 in English and French and held by 1,236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
30 editions published between 1929 and 1993 in English and French and held by 1,236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A time of harvest, American literature, 1910-1960 by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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40 editions published between 1962 and 1969 in 3 languages and held by 1,203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
40 editions published between 1962 and 1969 in 3 languages and held by 1,203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Early lectures by
Ralph Waldo Emerson(
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6 editions published between 1959 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published between 1959 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The third dimension; studies in literary history by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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29 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 991 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fifteen essays on the flowering of American national literature and its influence on our culture
29 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 991 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fifteen essays on the flowering of American national literature and its influence on our culture
The collected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by
Ralph Waldo Emerson(
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in English and held by 978 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"With the appearance of the tenth and final volume of Collected Works, a project fifty years in the making reaches completion: the publication of critically edited texts of all Emerson's works published in his lifetime and under his supervision."--The vol. 10 dust-jacket front flap
in English and held by 978 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"With the appearance of the tenth and final volume of Collected Works, a project fifty years in the making reaches completion: the publication of critically edited texts of all Emerson's works published in his lifetime and under his supervision."--The vol. 10 dust-jacket front flap
American perspectives : the national self-image in the twentieth century by
American Studies Association(
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24 editions published between 1961 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
24 editions published between 1961 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The roots of national culture : American literature to 1830 by
R. E Spiller(
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24 editions published between 1933 and 1949 in 3 languages and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
24 editions published between 1933 and 1949 in 3 languages and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Four makers of the American mind, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville : a bicentennial tribute : new essays by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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15 editions published between 1975 and 1990 in English and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
15 editions published between 1975 and 1990 in English and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Literary history of the United States(
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3 editions published between 1948 and 1967 in English and held by 840 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published between 1948 and 1967 in English and held by 840 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The oblique light; studies in literary history and biography by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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12 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Van Wyck Brooks-Lewis Mumford letters: the record of a literary friendship, 1921-1963 by
Van Wyck Brooks(
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9 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published in 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Social control in a free society by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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14 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The 1958 Benjamin Franklin Lectures, with contributions from Loren C. Eiseley, Carl G. Hempel, Gilbert Seldes, George J. Stigler, and Willard Hurst
14 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The 1958 Benjamin Franklin Lectures, with contributions from Loren C. Eiseley, Carl G. Hempel, Gilbert Seldes, George J. Stigler, and Willard Hurst
Notions of the Americans : picked up by a travelling bachelor by
James Fenimore Cooper(
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3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 618 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An 1828 semi-nonfictional travel narrative by James Fenimore Cooper. The work takes the form of letters between a fictional bachelor traveling in the United States to his European friends
3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 618 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An 1828 semi-nonfictional travel narrative by James Fenimore Cooper. The work takes the form of letters between a fictional bachelor traveling in the United States to his European friends
Eight American authors; a review of research and criticism by
Floyd Stovall(
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1 edition published in 1956 in English and held by 608 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
By Jay B. Hubbell, Floyd Stovall, Walter Blair, Lewis Leary, Stanley T. Williams, Willard Thorp, Harry Hayden Clark, and Robert E. Spiller. Edited by Floyd Stovall
1 edition published in 1956 in English and held by 608 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
By Jay B. Hubbell, Floyd Stovall, Walter Blair, Lewis Leary, Stanley T. Williams, Willard Thorp, Harry Hayden Clark, and Robert E. Spiller. Edited by Floyd Stovall
Late harvest : essays and addresses in American literature and culture by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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13 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Spiller recalls his pilgrimage as a scholar in this moving autobiographical tour through formative years in the history of the American studies movement. He testifies to attempting to become Emerson's "American Scholar", and argues that American studies, as far as he is concerned, appear as a logical extension of his transcendentalist quest after a national literature and culture
13 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Spiller recalls his pilgrimage as a scholar in this moving autobiographical tour through formative years in the history of the American studies movement. He testifies to attempting to become Emerson's "American Scholar", and argues that American studies, as far as he is concerned, appear as a logical extension of his transcendentalist quest after a national literature and culture
Milestones in American literary history by
Robert Ernest Spiller(
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13 editions published in 1977 in 3 languages and held by 565 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discusses the literary importance of 32 books by writers such as Lewis Mumford, D.H. Lawrence, Vernon Louis Parrington, Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, Bernard Fay, Norman Foerster, Howard Mumford Jones, Constance Rourke, Percy H. Boynton, Henry Seidel Canby, Myron F. Brightfield, Granville Hicks, Malcolm Cowley, Van Wyck Brooks, Josephine K. Piercy, Ralph H. Gabriel, F.O. Matthiessen, Augusto Santino, Donald Stauffer, Frank Luther Mott, Alfred Cazin, J. Donald Adams, Charles Cestre, Alexander Cowie, Lars Aahnebrink, Van Wyck Brooks, Frederick J. Hoffman, Harold C. Gardiner, Louise Bogan, Maxwell Geismar, Randall Stewart, and Willard Thorp
13 editions published in 1977 in 3 languages and held by 565 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discusses the literary importance of 32 books by writers such as Lewis Mumford, D.H. Lawrence, Vernon Louis Parrington, Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, Bernard Fay, Norman Foerster, Howard Mumford Jones, Constance Rourke, Percy H. Boynton, Henry Seidel Canby, Myron F. Brightfield, Granville Hicks, Malcolm Cowley, Van Wyck Brooks, Josephine K. Piercy, Ralph H. Gabriel, F.O. Matthiessen, Augusto Santino, Donald Stauffer, Frank Luther Mott, Alfred Cazin, J. Donald Adams, Charles Cestre, Alexander Cowie, Lars Aahnebrink, Van Wyck Brooks, Frederick J. Hoffman, Harold C. Gardiner, Louise Bogan, Maxwell Geismar, Randall Stewart, and Willard Thorp
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- Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851 Other Author
- Thorp, Willard 1899-1990 Other Contributor Editor Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Author
- Canby, Henry Seidel 1878-1961 Editor
- Johnson, Thomas Herbert Other Contributor Editor
- Ludwig, Richard M. 1920- Other Contributor Editor Author
- Whicher, Stephen E. (Stephen Emerson) 1915-1961 Other Editor
- Williams, Wallace E. Other Editor
- Ferguson, Alfred R. (Alfred Riggs) 1915-1974 Annotator Editor
- Slater, Joseph 1916-2001
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American essays American literature American literature--Bibliography American literature--Colonial period American literature--Revolutionary period (United States) American prose literature American prose literature--Revolutionary period (United States) Anthropology Authors, American Biography Brooks, Van Wyck, Civilization Conduct of life Cooper, James Fenimore, Criticism Critics Cycles (Literature) Economic policy Editors Education Emerson, Ralph Waldo, England Europe Fires Franklin, Benjamin, Frazer, John Fries, Frontier and pioneer life in literature Historical fiction, American Intellectual life Johnson, Thomas Herbert Literature Manners and customs Melville, Herman, Mumford, Lewis, National characteristics, American National characteristics, English New Brunswick New England New York (State) Political and social views Quinn, Arthur Hobson, Simpson, Louis, Social control Spiller, Robert Ernest, Sullivan, Walter, Taylor, Henry, Thoreau, Henry David, Travel United States Whitman, Walt,
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스필러, 로버트 E.
스필러, 로버트 E. 1896-1988
스필러, 로버트 어네스트
스필러, 로버트 어네스트 1896-1988
스필러, 로버트 어니스트
스필러, 로버트 어니스트 1896-1988
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Japanese (5)
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Spanish (2)
English, Old (1)
Italian (1)
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French (5)
Japanese (5)
Multiple languages (2)
Spanish (2)
English, Old (1)
Italian (1)
Arabic (1)