Bowers, Fredson

Overview

Works:	644 works in 2,078 publications in 6 languages and 37,275 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Humorous fiction Bildungsromans Picaresque fiction Novels Biography‡vDictionaries Dictionaries Bio-bibliography‡vDictionaries Reference works
Roles:	Author, Editor, Annotator, Author of introduction, Other, Publishing director, Honoree, Compiler, Proofreader, Bibliographic antecedent
Classifications:	PR3454, 823.5

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Fredson Bowers

Essays in bibliography, text, and editing by Fredson Bowers( Book )
The life and work of Fredson Bowers by G. Thomas Tanselle( Book )
The gold medal of the Bibliographical Society : Graham Pollard, Fredson Bowers, 6 May 1969 by John Carter( Book )
Fredson Bowers and his legacy : a centennial exhibition( Book )
Fredson Bowers and Charlton Hinman; a catalogue of first printings of their books displayed at the Ohio State University main library, 12-16 February 1968 by Kent State University( Book )

by Richard Beale Davis( )
Reference Department correspondence files by University of Virginia( )
Gay Wilson Allen papers by Gay Wilson Allen( )
Slides of University of Virginia scenes( Visual )
Papers by Nancy Hale( )
James Marshall Osborn correspondence by James M Osborn( )
English Department controversy clippings( )
by Hiram Collins Haydn( )
University of Virginia student papers by Dora Jean Ashe( )
Index to the figurative language of The Duchess of Malfi by Louis Charles Stagg( )
American book-collectors and bibliographers( )
Fredson Thayer Bowers, Chairman, Department of English by Richard Champ Payne( )
Papers from a dinner held in honor of Fredson Bowers by Irby B Cauthen( )
Bowers, Fredson( )
Roy Land correspondence primarily with Harry Clemons by Roy Land( )

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Most widely held works by Fredson Bowers

Elizabethan revenge tragedy : 1587-1642 by Fredson Bowers( Book )

68 editions published between 1940 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The description for this book, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642, will be forthcoming

The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding( Book )

54 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in English and held by 2,262 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love. Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity

Lectures on literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov( Book )

61 editions published between 1980 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 2,077 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations

Lectures on Russian literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov( )

45 editions published between 1980 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 1,665 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Principles of bibliographical description by Fredson Bowers( Book )

85 editions published between 1949 and 2012 in English and German and held by 1,578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Textual & literary criticism by Fredson Bowers( Book )

50 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in English and Japanese and held by 1,204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer, happily occupied in his travel drudgery, has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them. Professor Bowers advances to the edge of this gulf and says several forceful things across it; they turn out to be important and interesting, though occasionally scathing. The first chapter reminds us that the literary critic can only criticise with confidence when the textual critic has established what the author wrote; Professor Bowers indicates how very much has yet to be done. The second chapter takes a particular case, Walt Whitman's copy' for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, and shows how the bibliographer can, by ingenious but rigorous deduction, give an insight into the growth of an author's conception of the nature and aim of his work. The other two lectures, on Shakespeare and other early dramatic texts, will show non-specialists the striking advances in editorial technique, and the growth of standards of scholarship in these studies

On editing Shakespeare by Fredson Bowers( Book )

24 editions published between 1955 and 1966 in English and held by 1,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker by Thomas Dekker( Book )

19 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in English and Italian and held by 1,073 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The dramatic works in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon by Francis Beaumont( Book )

35 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in English and held by 1,012 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elizabethan dramatists by Fredson Bowers( Book )

13 editions published between 1987 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays on playwrights writing during the Elizabethan era which includes not only the years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), but loosely includes the reigns of James I and Charles I up to the closing of the theatres by the Commonwealth in 1642. Also includes essays on theatre in Shakespeare's time and the publication of English Renaissance plays

Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov( Book )

25 editions published between 1982 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 1,001 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The famous writer challenges popular views of Cervantes' classic masterpiece in nine discourses based on lectures given at Harvard from 1951-1952

Jacobean and Caroline dramatists by Fredson Bowers( Book )

11 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 982 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays on dramatists whose careers ranged from 1558 to 1649 under the rule of Kings James I and Charles II

Whitman's manuscripts: Leaves of grass (1860) A parallel text by Walt Whitman( Book )

21 editions published between 1955 and 1969 in English and held by 830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The meaning of truth by William James( Book )

11 editions published between 1975 and 2008 in English and held by 813 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1909 (one year before his death), philosopher William James collected several essays into this volume, meant as a sequel to his book "Pragmatism." He wanted to clarify his definition of the truth, and respond to criticism of his previous book

The complete works of Christopher Marlowe by Christopher Marlowe( Book )

16 editions published between 1973 and 1981 in English and held by 780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The principles of psychology by William James( Book )

6 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of the greatest classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America's most important philosopher

The will to believe and other essays in popular philosophy by William James( Book )

8 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in English and held by 700 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"At most of our American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have the laudable custom of inviting once or twice a year some maturer scholar to address them, the occasion often being made a public one. I have from time to time accepted such invitations, and afterwards had my discourse printed in one or other of the Reviews. It has seemed to me that these addresses might now be worthy of collection in a volume, as they shed explanatory light upon each other, and taken together express a tolerably definite philosophic attitude in a very untechnical way. Were I obliged to give a short name to the attitude in question, I should call it that of radical empiricism, in spite of the fact that such brief nicknames are nowhere more misleading than in philosophy. I say 'empiricism, ' because it is contented to regard its most assured conclusions concerning matters of fact as hypotheses liable to modification in the course of future experience; and I say 'radical, ' because it treats the doctrine of monism itself as an hypothesis, and, unlike so much of the half-way empiricism that is current under the name of positivism or agnosticism or scientific naturalism, it does not dogmatically affirm monism as something with which all experience has got to square"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Essays in philosophy by William James( Book )

8 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in English and held by 694 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays in Philosophy brings together twenty-one essays, reviews, and occasional pieces published by James between 1876 and 1910. They range in subject from a concern with the teaching of philosophy and appraisals of philosophers to analyses of important problems

A wonder book, and Tanglewood tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne( Book )

3 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of Greek myths retold as fairy tales

Bibliography and textual criticism by Fredson Bowers( Book )

32 editions published between 1964 and 1966 in English and held by 687 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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