Japanese Letters of Lafacadio - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0842013911 ISBN 13 : 9780842013918

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1973

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Shoetlt after the death of Lafcadio Hearn, Edmund Clarence Stedman said: Hearn will become in time as much of a romantic personality and tradition as Poe now is. If this prophecy is to be fulfilled tis desirable that the tradition should be based on truth. The Poe legend springs in the main from the impression conveyed by his first biographer, Griswold, and it is now generally accepted that Griswold sunfriendly animus so distorted the facts of the poets life as to give of the man an idea both false and injurious. A tradition, however, once set on foot and made viable, dies hard. Our poor humanity is ever willing to fancy a biographer more impartial and accurate when he reveals and analyzes faults, than when he dwells on the virtues and nobility of his subject. Lombroso, Nordau, and their school, have inclined the multitude to believe every man of genius more or less morbid and abnormal, and when the ordinary defects of the qualities of a famous man are interpreted as signs of degeneracy the public is prone to feel it is at last getting The Real John Smith, The Real Robert Robertson.
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Originally published in 1910. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0842013911
• ISBN 13: 9780842013918
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible