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Orel, Harold was born on March 31, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Saul and Sarah (Wicker) Orel.
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While Englishmen were dying by the thousands on the battlefields of Europe, their friends and relations on the home front were reading books of humor, tales of espionage and adventure, colorful romances, and historical swashbucklers. Harold Orel's penetrating book explains why escapist fiction dominated the popular literary market in England throughout the Great War. A large factor, he shows, was the view of publishers, reviewers, booksellers, libraries, literary groups, and the general reading public that escapist fiction was a useful diversion from the inescapable horrors of war. Orel begins with a survey of the British literary world and its attitudes toward the novel at the outbreak of the war. Within a broad social, cultural, and economic context he depicts the "fiction industry" at a time of extraordinary upheaval, before the triumph of Modernism, when the attitudes and esthetics of writers, the tastes of readers, and the economics of the marketplace were undergoing rapid transformation. Subsequent chapters offer detailed studies of fifteen of the most touted novels of the period and the ways they reflected--or, more often, failed to reflect--the radical changes taking place as they were being written. The writers examined include George Moore, Norman Douglas, Frank Swinnerton, Compton Mackenzie, Mary Webb, Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, John Buchan, Alec Waugh, H.G. Wells, and Arnold Bennett. Many of their novels during these years avoid mention of the war that was reshaping their world, or allude to it only obliquely. The book concludes with a review of changes in the publishing world in 1918, the last year of the Great War. In its comprehensive coverage of a wide range of oncepopular but now neglected novels, Orel's authoritative study fills a gap in the cultural and literary history of early twentieth-century England.
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Like other volumes in the series, this chronology presents major events of the subject's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader with quick guides to dates, people and places. This volume focuses on the main facts of the life and career of Rudyard Kipling.
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Sir Walter Scott defined the parameters of the historical novel and illustrated his concept of the genre by writing a long series of novels dealing with medieval times, the Elizabethan Age, and the 18th century. Later novels written by his contemporaries and successors attracted smaller audiences. When Robert Louis Stevenson, in the early 1880s, expanded the boundaries of romantic fiction, he became the standard-bearer and inspiration to many of his fellow novelists: Walter Besant, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley John Weyman, Anthony Hope, Henry Rider Haggard and Rafael Sabatini.
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This book is a study of the development of the Victorian short story, which by the 1890s and the appearance of the Sherlock Holmes stories, had become the most popular literary product of the late nineteenth century. The book examines the work of nine distinguished writers: William Carleton and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu serve to illustrate the change from a largely oral tradition to a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the reading public. Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope exemplify significant changes in the relationship between an author and his audience. Thomas Hardy insisted on older, more traditional modes of narrative, but his storytelling sense had been sharpened by experiences with many editors of periodicals who believed they were serving the 'modern' public. The other writers treated at length are Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells.
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Orel, Harold was born on March 31, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Saul and Sarah (Wicker) Orel.
Bachelor cum laude, University New Hampshire, 1948. Master of Arts, University Michigan, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1952.
Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1949.
Teaching fellow, University of Michigan, 1948-1952; instructor department English,, U. Maryland., 1952-1954, 55-56; overseas program, U. Maryland., Germany, Austria, England, 1954-1955; technical editor, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1953-1956; flight propulsion laboratory department, General Electric Company, Cincinnati, 1957; associate professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1957-1963; professor, U. Kansas, 1963-1974; Distinguished Professor of English, U. Kansas, 1975-1997; Distinguished professor emeritus, U. Kansas, since 1997; assistant dean faculties and research administration, U. Kansas, 1964-1967. Consultant to various university presses, scholarly journals, Canada Council Arts, National Endowment of Humanities, Midwest Research Institute, since 1958. Lecturer, Japan, 1974, 88, India, 1985.
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With United States Navy, 1944-1946. Fellow Royal Society Literature. Member Thomas Hardy Society (vice president since 1968), American Committee on Irish Studies (vice president 1967-1970, president 1970-1972).
Married Charlyn Hawkins, May 25, 1951. Children: Sara Elinor, Timothy Ralston.