James Branch Cabell (1879–1958)
Auteur de Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
A propos de l'auteur
James Branch Cabell (1879-1956) is best known for his tales of the imaginary land of Poictesme, where chivalry and galantry live on
Crédit image: Carl Van Vechten
Séries
Œuvres de James Branch Cabell
Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir (1921) 28 exemplaires
Between dawn and sunrise;: Selections from the writings of James Branch Cabell; (1930) 16 exemplaires
The Judging of Jurgen 8 exemplaires
Ballades from the hidden way 8 exemplaires
THE MAJORS AND THEIR MARRIAGES, with collateral Accounts of the allied Families of Aston, Ballard, Christian, Dancy,… (2011) 8 exemplaires
These Restless Heads by James Branch Cabell boxed with James Branch Cabell by Carl Van Doren (2 volumes) (1932) 6 exemplaires
Branch of Abingdon, Being a Partial Account of the Ancestry of Christopher Branch of "Arrowhattocks" and "Kingsland,"… 4 exemplaires
The Thin Queen of Elfhame {short story} 4 exemplaires
James Branch Cabell Combo #1: Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice/Figures of Earth/The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (James… (2013) 2 exemplaires
Porcelain Cups 2 exemplaires
The Rhyme To Porringer 2 exemplaires
Of Ellen Glasgow 2 exemplaires
In The Second April 2 exemplaires
Heart Of Gold [story] 2 exemplaires
Actors All 2 exemplaires
L'incubo 2 exemplaires
Some Ladies And Jurgen 2 exemplaires
The Scapegoats [story] 2 exemplaires
Letter: from James Branch Cabell to "Andrew" 1 exemplaire
Jurgen Proves it by Mathematics {short story} 1 exemplaire
The Happy Ending [story] 1 exemplaire
Letter: from James Branch Cabell to "Mrs. Houghton" (that is, Carolyn Wells), 20 April 1920 1 exemplaire
James Branch Cabell 1 exemplaire
Manuel Saga 2: The Silver Stallion; Domnei; The Music From Behind the Moon; The White Robe, in Russian (1994) 1 exemplaire
Rascoe/Goble/Head copy of Cabell's Jurgen augmented with the addition of 126 pages of the author's typescript notes 1 exemplaire
Complete Collection of James Branch Cabell (Annotated): Works Include Chivalry, Domnei, Figures of Earth, Gallantry,… 1 exemplaire
Music & Pigeons 1 exemplaire
CIRCULAR SENT MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES INTERESTED 1 exemplaire
THE TABOO IN LITERATURE 1 exemplaire
QUIET PLEASE | An Upshot of All Dreaming 1 exemplaire
The Bookman, November-December 1919 — Contributeur; Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction: Part II of The New Republic for April 12th, 1922 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Contributeur; Guest Editor — 1 exemplaire
First Editions including the fine collection of Rudyard Kipling formed by Paul Hyde Bonner of New York City; The… 1 exemplaire
JURGEN 1 exemplaire
Copy of a Letter : from James Branch Cabell to "Grandpa" (Branch or Cabell?), 20[?] July 1888 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works of James Branch Cabell (11 Complete Works of James Branch Cabell Including Chivalry, Domnei, Figures… (2015) 1 exemplaire
Love's Alumni: The Afterpiece 1 exemplaire
JURGEN; THE CREAM OF THE JEST; DOMNEI; FIGURES OF EARTH; THE HIGH PLACE; THE SILVER STALLION; SOMETHING ABOUT EVE 1 exemplaire
Affairs in Poictesme 1 exemplaire
Harper's Magazine June - December 1903, The Conspiracy of Arnaye- June 1903, The Castle of Content - August 1903 1 exemplaire
Letter : from James Branch Cabell to Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith), 20 January 1932 1 exemplaire
Romance and the Novel : A Review of Mistress of Mistresses by E. R. Eddison (in The American Mercury, January 1936) 1 exemplaire
The Dream (Story, in The Argonaut, Nov 23, 1912) 1 exemplaire
The Vampire: A Hair-Raising Story from Virginia, As Told by Hastings [story from New York Herald(?), c. late 1900(?)] 1 exemplaire
Love At Martinmas 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer : Vol II, No. 3 (Dec. 1921) — Guest editor — 1 exemplaire
Simon's Hour 1 exemplaire
The Casual Honeymoon 1 exemplaire
April's Message 1 exemplaire
The Ducal Audience 1 exemplaire
Don Manuel di Poictesme 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) (Library of… (2022) — Contributeur — 101 exemplaires
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch… (1920) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell; A Revised Bibliography (1932) — Avant-propos — 9 exemplaires
The Smart set; a history and anthology — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Breaking into print; being a compilation of papers wherein each of a select group of authors tells of the difficulties… (1937) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Immortal Lyrics: An Anthology of English Lyric Poetry from Sir Walter Raleigh to A.E. Housman (1938) — contributor to introduction — 8 exemplaires
A bibliographic check-list of the works of James Branch Cabell, 1904-1921 (1921) — Préface — 8 exemplaires
James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography, Part II. Notes on the Cabell Collections at the University of Virginia (1957) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Southern Poets - Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1936) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen (Spring 2014, Number Twenty-Nine) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography of his Writings, Biography and Criticism (1957) — Avant-propos — 4 exemplaires
1935 Essay Annual — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Morrow's Almanack and Every Day Book For 1930 — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November, 1932) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Little Verses and Big Names — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Atlantic, October 1946 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Saturday Evening Post, August 6, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
McBride's Magazine, September 1915 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 5 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Second-hand Man — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer, Volume I, Numbers 1-12 (April-August 1921) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Nation (September 12, 1953) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 4 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 2 (December, 1932) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Reviewer : Vol I, No. 8 (June 1, 1921) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 3 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Fellowship : December 1921 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Evening Post, October 1, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Evening Post, August 13, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Evening Post, September 10, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Red Book, November 1925 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Reading and collecting; a monthly review of rare and recent books: Volume 1, Number 11 (October 1937) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
American Short Stories: Anthology [Mi-Sefarim Amerikai'im: Antologiyah shel Ha-Sipur Ha-Ketsar Ha-Amerkai] — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
American Mercury, August 1930 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
American Mercury, July 1931 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Dial, February 22, 1919 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
American Mercury, December 1951 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Nation — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Golden Book Magazine, Vol II No 10 (October 1925) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Golden Book Magazine, Vol IX No 43 (June 1929) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol 6 No 3 (July 1930) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Evening Post, August 27, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Georgia Review, Vol VII No 3 (Fall 1953) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Review of Literature, Vol XXV, No. 31 (August 1, 1942) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Jewel Merchants, in Lino-cuts — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 7 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
The Argosy, Volume XXXVIII (December 1901 to March 1902) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The American Spectator : A Literary Newspaper, Vol. 1 No. 6 — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Evening Post, September 3, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Saturday Evening Post, August 20, 1904 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Direction, Vol 1 No 1 (Autumn 1934) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Cabell, Branch
Washington, Burwell (pseudonym)
Jefferson, Henry Lee (pseudonym)
Anderson, Claiborne Hauks (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1879-04-14
- Date de décès
- 1958-05-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA - Études
- College of William and Mary (BA|1898)
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
poet
reporter
editor (tout afficher 7)
geneaologist - Relations
- Glasgow, Ellen (friend)
Cabell, Margaret Freeman (wife)
Munford, Beverley Bland (uncle)
Tompkins, Ellen Wilkins (cousin)
Harrison, Henry Sydnor (cousin)
Rives, Amelie (cousin) (tout afficher 12)
Cabell, James Alston (cousin)
Cabell, Isa Carrington (cousin)
Harrison, Norvell (cousin)
Christian, W. E. (cousin)
Bouve, Pauline Carrington (cousin)
Bowie, Walter Russell (cousin) - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1937)
- Courte biographie
- Cabell, Branch - (James Branch Cabell)kăˈbəl, 1879–1958, American novelist, b. Richmond, Va., grad. William and Mary, 1898. "As a mnemonic for the pronunciation of his name, he wrote: 'Tell the rabble / My name is Cabell.' (2004, F Brett Cox, editor)" After various experiences as a journalist and as a clerk for a coal mining company he began writing fiction. His early works, which are sophisticated novels deriding conventional history, include Gallantry (1907), Chivalry (1909), and The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (1915). Many of Cabell's most popular novels are set in the imaginary medieval kingdom of Poictesme; among these are The Cream of the Jest (1917), Jurgen (1919)—Cabell's most famous work because of its attempted suppression on charges of obscenity—and The Silver Stallion (1926). Cabell's novels are usually pointedly antirealistic, and many of them can be considered moral allegories. Although he was enormously popular in the 1920s, his highly artifical prose style and subject matter lost favor with critics and public alike by the 1930s. His nonfiction writing includes Beyond Life (1919), The St. Johns (with A. J. Hanna, 1943), and Let Me Lie (1947).
Membres
Discussions
Notes and Translations on Chivalry? à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Septembre 2022)
New digital project explores the life and legacy of James Branch Cabell, namesake of VCU’s library à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Janvier 2022)
Cabell's original titles à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Septembre 2021)
Cabell reference in science fiction story à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Septembre 2021)
Gaiman's steal on Cabell à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Juillet 2021)
German ballad (1907) about a knight called Manuel à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Janvier 2021)
"The Vampire," a First Story by Cabell à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Décembre 2020)
Cabell's Heirs? à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Novembre 2020)
Faulkner and james Branch Cabell à William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (Octobre 2020)
Happy 100th birthday Jurgen! à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Septembre 2019)
Beyond Life à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Janvier 2019)
Special Delivery (screening the mail) à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Novembre 2017)
Ecben and the Witch-Women (and a pendant) à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Octobre 2013)
Illustrated Cabell Bibliography à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Janvier 2013)
Dedicated to JBC à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Décembre 2012)
Cabell articles on offer à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Mai 2011)
A new book called Jurgen à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Mars 2011)
Musings on The Silver Stallion à The Rabble Discuss Cabell: James Branch Cabell &c (Juillet 2010)
Critiques
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Jon_Hansen | 4 autres critiques | Nov 14, 2023 |
Jon_Hansen | 4 autres critiques | Nov 14, 2023 | 
This book collects the prefaces to all of the books in Cabell's Storisende edition of his work. As such, I didn't think at first that it would be worth getting. But the Storisende edition itself has its prefaces printed in difficult-to-read italics -- and it's also difficult to find every last volume -- so I decided to try it. It provides a more or less coherent summary of what Cabell thought he was doing with each of his books. Or, at least, what Cabell says he was trying to do; he is nothing if not an unreliable narrator. Perhaps it's better to say that it works as a coherent plan of the Storisende edition and why he laid it out as he did. He also succumbed to the urge to re-revise, apparently, in that he added some material that had been printed elsewhere. If someone is going to read all of Cabell, it's a useful book.… (plus d'informations)
1 rpuchalsky | Oct 10, 2022 |
rpuchalsky | Oct 10, 2022 | 
A one act play Cabell adapted from one of his short stories (Balthazar's Daughter), done for some local theatre. Apparently it was heavily rewritten with input from the actors and producer. I'm not sure which book the original story is collected in but i have read it and this is pretty similar to my recollection.
However there was an odd emphasis on the heroine being horrified by the fact the Duke was slightly dark skinned.. maybe i'm giving Cabell too much credit but i don't think that is in his solo version.
Still i wouldn't really recommend this even for the Cabell enthusiasts since its repeated elsewhere and in a purer Cabellian fashion.… (plus d'informations)
However there was an odd emphasis on the heroine being horrified by the fact the Duke was slightly dark skinned.. maybe i'm giving Cabell too much credit but i don't think that is in his solo version.
Still i wouldn't really recommend this even for the Cabell enthusiasts since its repeated elsewhere and in a purer Cabellian fashion.… (plus d'informations)
1 wreade1872 | 1 autre critique | Jul 25, 2022 |
wreade1872 | 1 autre critique | Jul 25, 2022 | 
"...where she would tantalize me nightly, from her balcony, after the example of the Veronese lady in Shakespeare's spirited tragedy, which she prodigiously admired.
As concerns myself, a reasonable liking for romance had been of late somewhat tempered by the inclemency of the weather and the obvious unfriendliness of the dog; but there is no resisting a lady's commands..."
Yet another in the long line of Cabell’s historical romance short story collections. Its all filigree and artificiality but completely self-aware both from the authorial point of view and that of its characters who are generally quite practical at heart regardless of their pretensions for high romance.
Each story is presented like a scene from a play to add to the idea of life as stage sort of thing. Unlike most of Cabell’s story collections which are spread throughout time this one is much more connected with each tale leading on from the one before.
So a side-character in one will be the main character in the next, or the villain in one might be the hero in the following.
Personally i prefer the more historically spread collections but this format does allow you to see a different perspective on some of the previous stories and characters.
I think its probably the nicest of Cabell’s works. Usually the ratio of sweet to bitter in Cabell’s books is about 50/50 or worse but this is more like 80/20.
Its very nicely written but its happily-ever-afterness did start to grate on me a bit, of course my favourite Cabell so far is Figures of Earth, probably his bitterest work :P .
After i finished the final proper chapter it was still going to be 4-stars but probably the Cabell work i would have least liked to reread.
However the afterpiece really brings everything together and actually makes me want to reread the whole thing again keeping in mind the effect of the whole rather than seeing it as a series of tales.
"...and my children will be reared on moral aphorisms and rational food, with me as a handy example of everything they should avoid. Deuce take it, Amalia," he added, "a father must in common decency furnish an example to his children!"… (plus d'informations)
As concerns myself, a reasonable liking for romance had been of late somewhat tempered by the inclemency of the weather and the obvious unfriendliness of the dog; but there is no resisting a lady's commands..."
Yet another in the long line of Cabell’s historical romance short story collections. Its all filigree and artificiality but completely self-aware both from the authorial point of view and that of its characters who are generally quite practical at heart regardless of their pretensions for high romance.
Each story is presented like a scene from a play to add to the idea of life as stage sort of thing. Unlike most of Cabell’s story collections which are spread throughout time this one is much more connected with each tale leading on from the one before.
So a side-character in one will be the main character in the next, or the villain in one might be the hero in the following.
Personally i prefer the more historically spread collections but this format does allow you to see a different perspective on some of the previous stories and characters.
I think its probably the nicest of Cabell’s works. Usually the ratio of sweet to bitter in Cabell’s books is about 50/50 or worse but this is more like 80/20.
Its very nicely written but its happily-ever-afterness did start to grate on me a bit, of course my favourite Cabell so far is Figures of Earth, probably his bitterest work :P .
After i finished the final proper chapter it was still going to be 4-stars but probably the Cabell work i would have least liked to reread.
However the afterpiece really brings everything together and actually makes me want to reread the whole thing again keeping in mind the effect of the whole rather than seeing it as a series of tales.
"...and my children will be reared on moral aphorisms and rational food, with me as a handy example of everything they should avoid. Deuce take it, Amalia," he added, "a father must in common decency furnish an example to his children!"… (plus d'informations)
1 wreade1872 | Jul 25, 2022 |
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