Arthur Hobson Quinn
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Arthur Hobson Quinn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his B.S. in 1894 and his Ph.D. in 1899. Quinn also studied at the University of Munich. He began his teaching career when he was appointed an instructor in mathematics at Penn in 1894, and an instructor of English in 1895. The University appointed him Assistant Professor of English in 1904. Quinn would eventually hold the title of Welsh Professor of History and English, and serve as Dean of the College from 1912-1922. In his academic studies, he was an authority on the history of American drama and literature. Source: [University of Pennsylvania](
Books
A history of the present day drama from the Civil war to the present day
Edgar Allan Poe, a critical biography
Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "A Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesswork, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend and describes how they both were distorted by early biographies.
History of the American drama from the Civil War to the present day ..
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Edith Wharton
American Fiction
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The Scarlet Letter [Rappaccini's Daughter]( WASHINGTON IRVING Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker The Legend of Sleepy Hollow EDGAR ALLAN POE Eleonora Fall of the House of Usher Purloined Letter FRANCIS BRET HARTE The Luck of Roaring Camp The Outcasts of Poker Flat The Idyl of Red Gulch SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog EDWARD EVERETT HALE The Man Without a Country