What is the full title Of The Pickwick Papers (1836-37)?

Francis Otto Matthiessen (1902-50) coined the phrase the “American Renaissance”, in his work The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941). The phrase refers to a time in the mid-nineteenth century that saw a flourishing of talent in American letters. Francis Otto Matthiessen (1902-50), in his work The American…

The classical writer who was the first to record the story about the runner who ran from Marathon to Athens, and then died was Lucian of Samosata, a writer of satirical essays of the second century A.D. Where he got the story is unknown. He claimed that Philippides (also known as Pheidippides) ran about twenty-five…

Literary critic Joel Spingarn invented the term “New Criticism” in 1910 in an address at Columbia University called “The New Criticism.” The term did not come into general use until John Crowe Ransom’s book The New Criticism (1941). New Critics focused on the literary text as a discrete whole rather than on historical or biographical…

The names of the ghosts in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw are Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, the former valet and governess at the estate called Bly.

Yes. Ian Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond novels began his intelligence work during World War II, when he served as the director of Naval Intelligence in Britain. After D Day, he was placed in charge of an assault unit that became known as Fleming’s Private Navy. It obtained German code books and…

Virginia Woolf’s maiden name was Adeline Virginia Stephen. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912.