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William Charvat

Autor/a de Handbook for Writers

6+ obres 482 Membres 3 Ressenyes

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Studies in Bibliography (Vol. 12) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1905-07-15
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
New York City, New York, USA
Educació
New York University (BS|MA)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD|1934)
Professions
professor
historian
writer
Organitzacions
Ohio State University
Biografia breu
William Charvat began teaching at the Ohio State University in 1944 as distinguished professor of American literature in the Department of English. He is honored there by the Charvat Collection.

For much of his time at Ohio State, he was part of a triumvirate of American literature faculty that included Roy Harvey Pearce and Claude Simpson who were among the most respected literary scholars of their time. This academic trio, for instance, was responsible for establishing the Centenary Hawthorne Edition at Ohio State, an editorial project that became the model, under the auspices of the Center for Editions of American Authors, at other universities throughout the country, e.g., William Dean Howells at Indiana University, Herman Melville at Northwestern University, Mark Twain at the University of California, Berkeley, etc.

William Charvat, in his individual scholarship, was a pioneer in his approach toward the analysis and interpretation of American literary culture. Charvat’s Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850 and The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870 were groundbreaking works in the study of American book history.

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Charvat's Rosenbach lectures, reprinted here with an afterword by Michael Winship which places the essays in the context of Charvat's works throughout his career and re-situates them within the field of book history, which emerged in the years following their original delivery. An important study of the early years of American publishing.
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JBD1 | May 2, 2017 |
In writing this book, we've been guided by the knowledge that people write for an audience - whether it be the general public, colleagues and friends, business associates, college instructors, or simply themselves. Consequently, a writing task can be viewed as a series of choices a writer makes as he or she prepares a message for an intended audience. This book, then, concerns itself with those choices.
 
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rajendran | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 24, 2009 |

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Obres
6
També de
1
Membres
482
Popularitat
#51,208
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
29

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