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Eugene Field's Creative Years
Author | : Charles H. Dennis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1924-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780827423183 |
Eugene Field and His Age
Author | : Lewis O. Saum |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780803242876 |
Eugene Field (1850?95) is perhaps best remembered for his children's verse, especially "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." During his journalistic career, however, his column, "Sharps and Flats," in the Chicago Daily News illuminated the shenanigans of local and national politics, captured the excitement of baseball, and praised the cultural scene of Chicago and the West over that of the East Coast and Europe. Field used whimsy, satire, and, at times, unadorned admiration to depict and encapsulate the energy of a young nation reinventing itself and its political ambitions in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Foremost, Field was a political observer. During his lifetime politics saw more public awareness and involvement than at any other time in American history, and Field's great popularity derived mainly from his near-ceaseless commentary?arch, outlandish, comic, serious?on that arena of affairs. Field also devoted many columns to entertainment and diversions, discussing the baseball "idiocy" that stormed Chicago and championing and criticizing authors and actors.
Eugene Field's Years as a Chicago Journalist (1883-1895)
Author | : Patricia Lillian Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Journalism |
ISBN | : |
Life of Eugene Field
Author | : Slason Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Encyclopedia of American Humorists
Author | : Steven H. Gale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 2016-04-14 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1317362268 |
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.