BOYESEN, HJALMAR HJORTH

hyälˈmär hyôrt boiˈĕsĕn, 1848–95, American writer, b. Norway, educated at the universities of Leipzig and Christiania (Ph.D., 1868). He came to the United States in 1869 and became editor of Fremad, a Norwegian weekly published in Chicago. Later he was a professor at Cornell and Columbia universities; his scholarly works include Goethe and Schiller (1879) and Essays on Scandinavian Literature (1895). Boyesen is best remembered for his fiction, including Gunnar (1874), a romance of Norwegian life, and such realistic urban novels as The Mammon of Unrighteousness (1891) and The Social Strugglers (1893).

See biography by C. A. Glasrud (1963).

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Tales from Two Hemispheres
Book by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen; Books for Libraries Press, 1877
Subjects: Fiction
See "THE MAN WHO LOST HIS NAME." TALES FROM TWO HEMISPHERES BY HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN, AUTHOR OF "GUNMAR," AND "A NORSEMANS PILGRIMAGE." BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, Late Ticknor Fields, and Fields...
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Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Book by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen; Charles Scribners Sons, 1892
Subjects: Children--Norway
...THE NORSELAND SERIES BOYHOOD IN NORWAY STORIES OF BOY-LIFE IN THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN BY HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SON NOTE THE Authors...
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Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History
Book by Martha Banta; Columbia University Press, 1987
Subjects: Feminine Beauty (Aesthetics)--United States, Popular Culture--United States--History--19th Century, Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, Women In Art, Women In Literature, Women--United States--Psychology, Women--United States--Social Conditions
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Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture
Book by Werner Sollors; Oxford University Press, 1986
Subjects: American Literature--Foreign Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Minority Authors--History And Criticism, Ethnic Groups In Literature, Ethnicity In Literature, Ethnology--United States
...pastoralization of the in-group -- has become part of a familiar cultural scenario. Many ethnic writers in America, from Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen to Ludwig Lewisohn, were professors, who may sometimes be especially eager to prove that they are not Pharisees...
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Divine Madness and the Absurd Paradox: Ibsen's Peer Gynt and the Philosophy of Kierkegaard
Book by Bruce G. Shapiro; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Ibsen, Henrik--1828-1906--Peer Gynt, Kierkegaard, Soren--1813-1855--Influence
...of view, only a moralist." 44 Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, in A Commentary on the Works...As with many commentaries, Boyesen appropriately juxtaposes Peer...earlier drama. " Peer Gynt," writes Boyesen, "is the incorporation of the...
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Literary Migration: Abraham Cahan's the Imported Bridegroom and the Alternative of American Fiction
Journal article by Philip Joseph; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Cahan, Abraham--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Immigrants--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Social aspects, Jews--Identity, The Imported Bridegroom (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...several telling examples of the internationalist rhetoric that appeared in the Forward (497). Works Cited Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. "The American Novelist and His Public." Literary and Social Silhouettes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1894...
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Notes on Contributors
Journal article; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 36, 2000
...Leftists," (Summer 1996). He has published essays on Whitman, John Gardner, and Joyce Cary, as well as a book Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, a nineteenth- century American realist. Two travel essays of his include: "Where Stoned Men Talk God in the Early...
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Real Change: George Washington Cable's the Grandissimes and the Crime of '73
Journal article by Michael Germana; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2005
Subjects: Cable, George Washington (1844-1925), Literary criticism, Money, Reconstruction period-US
...to novelist and literature professor Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen dated January 3, 1878, Cable responded to Boyesens suggestion that he end his literary hiatus...racism. This is why, in another letter to Boyesen, Cable observed that the novel does best...
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A Bibliography of Modern Scandinavian Literature: (Excluding H.C. Andersen) in English Translation, 1533 to 1900, and Listed by Translator
Journal article by Robert E. Bjork; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 77, 2005
Subjects: Scandinavian literature--Bibliography
...of Two Countries Kielland. With an introduction by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. London: Osgood, MIlvaine Co.; New York: Harper...Two Friends" repr. 1898 with trans. attributed to Boyesen in Stories by Foreign Authors. Scandinavian. New York...
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Beneath the Veil: Clothing, Race, and Gender in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
Journal article by Linda A. Morris; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: American literature--19th century, Clothing and dress--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Twain, Mark--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain, ed. Forrest G. Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), 129-52. (3) Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, quoted in Susan Gilman, Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twains America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago...
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Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOYESEN, HJALMAR HJORTH hyal mar hyort boi esen, 1848 95, American writer, b. Norway, educated...and Schiller (1879) and Essays on Scandinavian Literature (1895). Boyesen is best remembered for his fiction, including Gunnar (1874), a romance...


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