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Matthiessen was an American studies scholar and literary critic at Harvard University [6] and chaired its undergraduate program in history and literature. [7] He wrote and edited landmark works of scholarship on T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the James family (Alice James, Henry James, Henry James Sr., and William James), Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, Henry David ...
Scholar F. O. Matthiessen originated the phrase "American Renaissance" in his 1941 book American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. The thematic center of the American Renaissance was what Matthiessen called the "devotion" of all five of his writers to "the possibilities of democracy".
Far Tortuga is a novel by American author Peter Matthiessen, first published in 1975 by Random House and republished in 1976 by Bantam.Known for its unique typography and poetic prose, [1] [2] [3] the novel follows the story of a group of Caribbean turtle fishermen as they sail the waters of the Cayman Islands aboard the schooner Lillias Eden.
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F. O. Matthiessen: originated the concept "American Renaissance" Perry Miller: Puritan studies; Henry Nash Smith: founder of the "Myth and Symbol School" of American criticism; Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden (study of technology and culture) Leslie Fiedler: Love and Death in the American Novel; Stanley Fish: Pragmatism
Our Fathers - Andrew O'Hagan ; Our Game - John le Carré ; Our Lady of Chernobyl - Greg Egan; Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene ; Our World in Space - Isaac Asimov ; Out of Nowhere - Ouida Sebestyen; Out of Space and Time - Clark Ashton Smith ; Out of the Dust - Keran Hess, (1998 Newbery Medal) Out of the Shelter - David Lodge
The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work", [2] scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before ...
Frederick William Matthiessen (March 5, 1835 – February 11, 1918) was a philanthropist, industrialist, and mayor of LaSalle, Illinois. [3] He was instrumental in the creation of Matthiessen State Park. Matthiessen was the paternal grandfather of scholar and Harvard professor F.O. Matthiessen.