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Father and Son

By: Edmund Gosse

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Edmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it, Edmund Gosse recounts, with humor and pathos, his childhood as a member of a Victorian Protestant sect and his struggles to forge his own identity despite the loving control of his father. His work is a key document of the crisis of faith and doubt and a penetrating exploration of the impact of evolutionary science. An astute, well-observed, and moving portrait of the tensions of family life, Father and Son remains a classic of twentieth-century literature. This edition contains an illuminating introduction, and provides a series of fascinating appendices including extracts from Philip Gosse's Omphalos and Edmund Gosse's harrowing account of his wife's death from breast cancer.

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0140182764

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9780140182767

Father and Son

A Study of Two Temperaments

By: Edmund Gosse

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Father and Son

A Study of Two Temperaments

By: Edmund Gosse

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments" (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who died early and painfully of breast cancer, was a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, was an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife's death, took Edmund to live in Devon. "Father & Son" focuses on the father's response to the new evolutionary theories, especially those of his scientific colleague Charles Darwin, and Edmund's gradual rejection of both his father and his father's fundamentalist religion. As Michael Newton, Lecturer in English, University College London, has written, the book is "a brilliant, and often comic, record of the small diplomacies of home: those indirections, omissions, insincerities, and secrecies that underlie family relationships." "Brilliantly written, and full of gentle wit," "Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments" is "an unmatched social document, preserving for us whole the experience of childhood in a Protestant sect in the Victorian period....Above all, it is one of our best accounts of adolescence, particularly for those who endured...a religious upbringing.

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145153616X

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9781451536164

Father and Son A study of two temperaments

By: Edmund Gosse

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Father and Son A study of two temperaments

By: Edmund Gosse

Father and Son" is an ancient memoir story book written by Edmund Gosse. Father and Son (1907), initially subtitled "A Study of Two Temperaments," is a memoir with the aid of poet and critic Edmund Gosse, first posted anonymously. Gosse had already posted a biography of his father in 1890. Edmund Gosse's early years were spent in a really non secular Plymouth Brethren environment, as defined in Father and Son. Emily Gosse, his mom, died of breast cancer on the age of 50. She turned into a Christian tract writer. Philip Henry Gosse, Edmund's father, changed into an influential and particularly self-taught invertebrate zoologist and marine biology scholar who moved to Devon after his spouse died. The novel focuses on the interaction between the stern religious father, who rejected his scientific colleague Charles Darwin's new evolutionary theories, and his son's innovative rejection of Christian fundamentalism. Gosse utilized pseudonyms for the duration of the book, but a number of the people represented have been diagnosed. Following its preliminary book, Gosse made fifty revisions to Father and Son's textual content, the maximum of which had been minor but a number of which addressed authentic inaccuracies. A bibliographical assessment of the book's variants and impressions (there are sixty- in total) includes information on translations into Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese (partial), Spanish, and Swedish.

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9361421026

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9789361421020

The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol II

Dean of St. Paul's

By: Edmund Gosse

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The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol II

Dean of St. Paul's

By: Edmund Gosse

These two volumes comprise a biography of John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s and metaphysical poet. These volumes cover his tumultuous career in parliament, his writings and patronages, his marriage and his career with the Church of England.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532678150

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9781532678158

Father and Son

By: Edmund Gosse

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Father and Son

By: Edmund Gosse

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192840665

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9780192840660

A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780)

By: Edmund Gosse

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A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780)

By: Edmund Gosse

This landmark study was one of the first works of English academic literary criticism, covering the period 1660 to 1780.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108033911

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9781108033916

A Short History of Modern English Literature

By: Edmund Gosse

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A Short History of Modern English Literature

By: Edmund Gosse

Written by well-established critic Edmund Gosse, this 1898 work traces the history of English literature from Chaucer to Tennyson.

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Cambridge University Press

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110803392X

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9781108033923

The Life of Swinburne

By: Edmund Gosse

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The Life of Swinburne

By: Edmund Gosse

A brief biography of the controversial English poet Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909) by one of his literary contemporaries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108034144

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9781108034142

From Shakespeare to Pope

An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England

By: Edmund Gosse

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An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England

By: Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), best known for his memoir Father and Son, was one of the foremost literary critics of his day. This set of lectures given at Cambridge on the rise and fall of classical verse forms was first published in book form in 1885.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108054676

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9781108054676

Gray

By: Edmund Gosse

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Gray

By: Edmund Gosse

In this 1882 biography, Edmund Gosse offers a sympathetic reading of the life and verse of Thomas Gray (1716-71).

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1108034519

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9781108034517

The Fifties

From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

By: Edmund Wilson

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The Fifties

From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

By: Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson's The Fifties, edited by Leon Edel, is the highly acclaimed fourth volume in the series that began with The Twenties. It is complimented with photographs and journal excerpts of some of the most interesting characters of the decade, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Vladimir Nabokov. "A giant's workroom we can wander through, marveling ..." - Richard Locke, The Wall Street Journal on The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374600295

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9780374600297

The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I

Dean of St. Paul's

By: Edmund Gosse

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The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I

Dean of St. Paul's

By: Edmund Gosse

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153267810X

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A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780)

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A Short History of Modern English Literature

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From Shakespeare to Pope

From Shakespeare to Pope

Gray

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The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I

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