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- catalog abstract "Professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University from 1892 to 1924, scholar, critic, essayist, playwright, and fiction writer, Brander Matthews (1852-1929) was one of the most prominent and influential American "culture brokers" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book, the first full-length study of his career, explores the literary politics through which Matthews--often in league with his lifelong friend and ally, Theodore Roosevelt--worked to promote literary and cultural "progressivism" within and beyond the scholarly community. This study also reveals how Matthews, long ignored by scholars of American literary and cultural history, fell into undeserved oblivion. From 1880 to 1920, Matthews wielded enormous power from within the center of the New York literary establishment. Publisher's advisor, New York Times book reviewer, and MLS president, he counted W.D. Howells, Mark Twain, and James Weldon Johnson among his intimate friends. Later Matthews was attacked by the Young Intellectuals as a representative "genteel"--Despite such un-"genteel" behavior as championing Twain and literary realism, denouncing provincialism, and fighting to establish American literature in the academy. Matthews' "progressive" responses to such issues as the "Negro problem" and the "woman question" reveal an ideological conservatism. His career is a vivid reminder that academe was as "political" in 1890 as in 1990.".
- catalog contributor b3780016.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "1. From "Professional Millionaire" to "Literary Fellow" -- 2. "They Are Not as We Are": Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive View of "Others" -- 3. "Fighting in the Open" for Howells, Twain, and Literary Realism -- 4. "On Deck" with Roosevelt during the Campaign for American Cultural Independence -- 5. Ideological "Snap-Shots" of the New York Metropolis: Matthews's Fiction -- 6. In the Arena with Mencken, Bourne, and the "Juvenile Highbrows."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University from 1892 to 1924, scholar, critic, essayist, playwright, and fiction writer, Brander Matthews (1852-1929) was one of the most prominent and influential American "culture brokers" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book, the first full-length study of his career, explores the literary politics through which Matthews--often in league with his lifelong friend and ally, Theodore Roosevelt--worked to promote literary and cultural "progressivism" within and beyond the scholarly community. This study also reveals how Matthews, long ignored by scholars of American literary and cultural history, fell into undeserved oblivion. From 1880 to 1920, Matthews wielded enormous power from within the center of the New York literary establishment. Publisher's advisor, New York Times book reviewer, and MLS president, he counted W.D. Howells, Mark Twain, and James Weldon Johnson among his intimate friends. Later Matthews was attacked by the Young Intellectuals as a representative "genteel"--Despite such un-"genteel" behavior as championing Twain and literary realism, denouncing provincialism, and fighting to establish American literature in the academy. Matthews' "progressive" responses to such issues as the "Negro problem" and the "woman question" reveal an ideological conservatism. His career is a vivid reminder that academe was as "political" in 1890 as in 1990.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 254 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0870497383 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "818/.409 20".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 Knowledge Literature.".
- catalog subject "PS2373 .O43 1992".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Views on literature.".
- catalog subject "Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. From "Professional Millionaire" to "Literary Fellow" -- 2. "They Are Not as We Are": Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive View of "Others" -- 3. "Fighting in the Open" for Howells, Twain, and Literary Realism -- 4. "On Deck" with Roosevelt during the Campaign for American Cultural Independence -- 5. Ideological "Snap-Shots" of the New York Metropolis: Matthews's Fiction -- 6. In the Arena with Mencken, Bourne, and the "Juvenile Highbrows."".
- catalog title "Brander Matthews, Theodore Roosevelt, and the politics of American literature, 1880-1920 / Lawrence J. Oliver.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".