Thomas J. Wise

Thomas J. Wise
Author: William B. Todd
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1477300406

Thomas James Wise (1859–1937), though destined to receive in his own lifetime practically every honor the world of letters could bestow, is remembered today as perhaps the greatest malefactor in all of literary history. From 1934 to 1957 various enquiries have implicated him first in the manufacture of more than fifty predated "original" editions of eminent Victorian authors, then in seven additional forgeries, later in countless piracies of other nineteenth-century work, and finally in repeated acts of vandalism upon forty-one seventeenth-century plays. It is fitting that Wise himself appears as a contributor to this volume. Included are his original introduction to the Browning Library, his letters to bookseller J. E. Cornish, his extraordinary letter to Sir Edmund Gosse, and a note to H. Buxton Forman. These Centenary Studies review the course of research over twenty-five years, designate topics requiring further investigation, and assess new evidence of Wise's villainies. One more forgery is identified, the provenance of others reexamined, the forger's method of purveying his wares closely appraised, his association with H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse more precisely defined, and the range of his activities summarized in an annotated handlist. The record includes at least 400 printings directly attributed to Wise, as well as 23 suppressed or abortive issues, and 29 others in which he seems to be somewhat involved. Through these perspectives the culprit appears even more contemptible and, possibly for this very reason, ever more intriguing as a cause célèbre in literary scholarship. The illustration on the cover of this book reproduces, through a magnifying glass, the peculiar question mark appearing in certain forgeries printed for Wise by the firm of Richard Clay & Sons. The mark may also implicate Wise in other irregular printings, including The Death of Balder.

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End

A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End
Author: T. Bose
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0774844817

The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism

The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism
Author: Michael E. Robinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 179360794X

How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized poetic genius? Why was book collecting controversial during the Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism: Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as Romanticism’s historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the "romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves “ornamental gentlemen,” narratives of prototypically punk collecting and flâneuring by the essayist and collector Charles Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman, queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and forgery, sexuality, and authorship.

The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë

The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë
Author: Victor A. Neufeldt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317400453

The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë, first published in 1990, provides a collection of Branwell Brontë’s poetry, as well as a detailed history of the use and locations of his manuscripts, the story of their publication over the years, and a commentary of the poetry itself. This edition will be of interest to students of English Literature.

Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography

Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography
Author: Roy Bishop Stokes
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780810839229

Designed for the literary student, the student librarian and the beginning book collector, this manual assumes nothing but interest at the outset. In clear language, it serves to take readers to the point at which they are prepared to turn to advanced texts to develop specialized interests.

Thomas J. Wise

Thomas J. Wise
Author: University of Texas at Austin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1959
Genre: Literary forgeries and mystifications
ISBN:

The Poems of Charlotte Brontë

The Poems of Charlotte Brontë
Author: Victor A. Neufeldt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317400666

This edition of Charlotte Brontë’s poems, first published in 1985, although not "complete", provides a reliable text of all of her available verse, as well as a detailed history of the whereabouts of Charlotte’s manuscripts, the story of their publication over the years, and a commentary of the poetry itself. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature.

The Wise Men

The Wise Men
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1997-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0684837714

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Publications

Publications
Author: Shelley Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1886
Genre: Societies
ISBN: