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More Than Meets the Eye
Herbert Rowland
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Hans Christian Andersen and Nineteenth-century American Criticism
出版Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2006
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / Scandinavian
ISBN08386409239780838640920
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0ihsho6i6jYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Americans and other English speakers have long associated the name of Hans Christian Andersen exclusively with fairy tales for children. Danes and other Scandinavians, however, have preserved an awareness that the fairy tales are but part of an extensive and respectable lifework that embraces several other literary forms. Moreover, they have never lost sight of the fact that the fairy tales themselves address adults no less than children. Significantly, many of Andersen's coevals in the U.S. knew of his broader literary activity and the sophistication of his fairy tales. Major authors and critics commented on his various works in leading magazines and books, establishing a noteworthy corpus of criticism. One of them, Horace E. Scudder, wrote a seminal essay that surpassed virtually all contemporary writing on him in any language. The basic purpose of this study, the first of its kind, is to trace the course of American Andersen criticism over the second half of the nineteenth century and to view it in several American contexts.