My professional field was 17th and 18th C. French Lit. but the focus of my interest was the history of historiography both as writing and as Wissenschaft. Now that I am retired (since 1999) I can discern that I was also always interested in re-discovering neglected or forgotten writers and scholars. More recently my interest has shifted to the visual arts and I have written on painting, stained glass, and photography
In 1898-1900 Gabriele Munter, the gifted Blue Rider artist, visited her mother's family, which ha... more In 1898-1900 Gabriele Munter, the gifted Blue Rider artist, visited her mother's family, which had settled in the U.S in the mid-19th century. With one of the new, inexpensive Kodak box cameras she had received as a gift she took photographs of people and places, chiefly in the South West and in Missouri.
A study of Stephen Adam's highly original, perhaps unique stained glass panels from c. late 1860 ... more A study of Stephen Adam's highly original, perhaps unique stained glass panels from c. late 1860 representing modern industrial workers in their everyday working clothes. Reflections on stained glass (the "Cinderella" of the arts) and its relation to painting and architecture, and suggestions concerning the stylistic influences on this work by an otherwise fairly traditional stained glass artist.
... Between history and literature. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Gossman, Lionel. PUBLIS... more ... Between history and literature. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Gossman, Lionel. PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1990. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0674068157 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 412 p. ...
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge, 2001
The hard-working molluscs make up an interesting, modest people of poor, little workers, whose la... more The hard-working molluscs make up an interesting, modest people of poor, little workers, whose laborious way of life constitutes the seri-ous charm and the morality of the sea.... Here all is friendly. These little creatures do not speak to the world, but they work for it. They ...
In the month of June 1768 a shocking piece of news spread rapidly through the learned, literary a... more In the month of June 1768 a shocking piece of news spread rapidly through the learned, literary and artistic world of Europe. Returning to Rome from Vienna, where he had had an audience with the Empress Maria Theresa, Johann Joachim Winckelmann-the celebrated ...
LA Cume de Sainte-Palaye's Glossary of Old French, known to us in the form in which it was pu... more LA Cume de Sainte-Palaye's Glossary of Old French, known to us in the form in which it was published by Lucien Favre in 1875-82, was to have been the crowning achievement of Old French scholarship in the eighteenth century. Planned as early as die'twenties of the ...
In 1898-1900 Gabriele Munter, the gifted Blue Rider artist, visited her mother's family, which ha... more In 1898-1900 Gabriele Munter, the gifted Blue Rider artist, visited her mother's family, which had settled in the U.S in the mid-19th century. With one of the new, inexpensive Kodak box cameras she had received as a gift she took photographs of people and places, chiefly in the South West and in Missouri.
A study of Stephen Adam's highly original, perhaps unique stained glass panels from c. late 1860 ... more A study of Stephen Adam's highly original, perhaps unique stained glass panels from c. late 1860 representing modern industrial workers in their everyday working clothes. Reflections on stained glass (the "Cinderella" of the arts) and its relation to painting and architecture, and suggestions concerning the stylistic influences on this work by an otherwise fairly traditional stained glass artist.
... Between history and literature. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Gossman, Lionel. PUBLIS... more ... Between history and literature. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Gossman, Lionel. PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1990. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0674068157 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 412 p. ...
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge, 2001
The hard-working molluscs make up an interesting, modest people of poor, little workers, whose la... more The hard-working molluscs make up an interesting, modest people of poor, little workers, whose laborious way of life constitutes the seri-ous charm and the morality of the sea.... Here all is friendly. These little creatures do not speak to the world, but they work for it. They ...
In the month of June 1768 a shocking piece of news spread rapidly through the learned, literary a... more In the month of June 1768 a shocking piece of news spread rapidly through the learned, literary and artistic world of Europe. Returning to Rome from Vienna, where he had had an audience with the Empress Maria Theresa, Johann Joachim Winckelmann-the celebrated ...
LA Cume de Sainte-Palaye's Glossary of Old French, known to us in the form in which it was pu... more LA Cume de Sainte-Palaye's Glossary of Old French, known to us in the form in which it was published by Lucien Favre in 1875-82, was to have been the crowning achievement of Old French scholarship in the eighteenth century. Planned as early as die'twenties of the ...
Transactions of the American Philosophical Societyiety, 2020
After the Treaty of Union (1707) Scots, often of very humble origin, began to play a major role i... more After the Treaty of Union (1707) Scots, often of very humble origin, began to play a major role in promoting the work of classic and contemporary writers in English. Some set up business in Edinburgh and Glasgow, others in London itself. Their names soon became familiar to all readers in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries: e.g. Blackwood, Constable, Macmillan, Murray, Nelson. Accused of "piracy" by their established English counterparts, the lawsuits brought against them also led to the transformation of copyright law into something resembling its modern form. The activities of eighteen Scottish publishing houses and the writers associated with them are presented in turn. The little volume is intended as a contribution both to Scottish history and to the role of publishers in the production of major works of literature and history. .
A brief, illustrated presentation of the highly original photographic work of a talented Scottish... more A brief, illustrated presentation of the highly original photographic work of a talented Scottish-born woman photographer in the mid-19th century. Her work fell into oblivion after her death in 1865 and the little essay includes some speculation as to the reasons for the revival of interest in it in the later years of the 20th century.
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