Charles Capper (1) (1944–2021)
Auteur de The American Intellectual Tradition, A Sourcebook: Volume I, 1630-1865
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Charles Capper, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Séries
Œuvres de Charles Capper
The American Intellectual Tradition, A Sourcebook: Volume I, 1630-1865 (1989) — Directeur de publication — 186 exemplaires
The American Intellectual Tradition, A Sourcebook: Volume II, 1865 to the Present (1989) — Directeur de publication — 177 exemplaires
The American Intellectual Tradition: a Sourcebook [set] (1989) — Directeur de publication — 23 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1944
- Date de décès
- 2021-07-01
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - Études
- Johns Hopkins University (BA | 1966)
University of California, Berkeley (MA | 1968)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD | 1984) - Organisations
- Massachusetts Historical Society
Phi Beta Kappa
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 490
- Popularité
- #50,416
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 38
The book is dense. The subject has her own life; her life is set in a rich historical period; her thinking on matters is detailed and careful. Capper captures all of that and how they relate one to the other. She was a democratic socialist and supported European, especially Italian, revolution. At the same time she called for a mature literary culture in the United States. She was so well informed that I am sorry she died before her intellect was used up, but there were people who thought her early death was to her advantage. Interested though I was I was not happy reading the last chapter of this work.
The two volume work by Capper seems to be the standard. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall has won the Pulitzer Prize and was in today's mail. I have read Marshall's book on The Peabody Sisters and have some hope for the newer book.… (plus d'informations)