Background
Myers, Robert Manson was born on May 29, 1921 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Horwood Prettyman and Matilda Manson (Wynn) Myers.
( From Henry James's brilliant evocation of the social sc...)
From Henry James's brilliant evocation of the social scene in nineteenth-century Boston, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a trenchant satire sure to prove controversial as it debates the rule of women in "the city of reform" and challenges accepted views of love, courtship and marriage. By ironic good fortune, Henry James, bitterly disappointed at the disastrous failure of his own plays, created superlative novels readily adapted by others to the scenic stage. Now readers and playgoers who remember The Heiress (1948), The Innocents (1950), The Aspern Papers (1958), and The Wings of the Dove (1963) will delight in The Bostonians, drawn from one of the few James novels exclusively American in setting and theme. "I wished to write a very American tale," James wrote in his Notebooks - " a tale very characteristic of our social conditions; and I asked myself what was the most salient and peculiar point in our social life. The answer was: the situation of women, the decline of the sentiment of sex, the agitation on their behalf." from the inside jacket flap
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(The last, and quite possible most moving of the six books...)
The last, and quite possible most moving of the six books that make up "The Children of Pride". The south has been defeated, its wealth destroyed, yet the men and women who survived must live on and try to put together the pieces of their shattered world. Here are people emerging from the shock of loss, yet retaining a courage and dignity that will not surrender to the darkness of despair.
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(The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation ...)
The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation family, now available in a compact, illustrated volume for new readers and for all those who so greatly admired the original monumental edition. The letters vividly recreate a period of American history unparalleled for its drama and poignancy. From reviews of the first edition: "No story in America's history has been so often told, or has so well stood the retelling, as that of the Old South and its destruction. But Robert Manson Myers's splendid book tells it as it has not been told before, in the fullness of its poignancy and tragedy." -Madison Jones, New York Times Book Review "A great and indispensable book." -Jonathan Yardley, New Republic "A Gone with the Wind saga.... This book is superb." -Clarence E. Olson, St. Louis Post Dispatch "The Children of Pride is family reconstruction on a grand scale. It demonstrates how the editing of sources can become, in the hands of an imaginative scholar, the work of creative history." -Citation for the 1973 National Book Award in History. The original version of The Children of Pride was the winner of the 1973 National Book Award in History. It was also named among the best books of 1972 by the American Library Association and by the New York Times Book Review, Saturday Review, Time, Washington Post, and Newsweek.
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(Book one of three in the 'Children of Pride' saga, a true...)
Book one of three in the 'Children of Pride' saga, a true story of Georgia and the Civil War covering the years 1854 to 1860. This is the saga of an aristocratic Southern family, before, during and after the Civil War. It is told in their own words, through the intimate letters to one another. What emerges in this enthralling work is an unrivaled portrayal of a proud people and a way of life that flowered in splendor, then was swept away forever. 'Many Mansions' is the first of three books that make up this series. It recreates in wonderful detail and superb humanity those years when war was but a distant cloud on the horizon, life in the Old South had reached its greatest perfection, and it seemed nothing could mar the endless delight of the social whirl and daily round of work and pleasure on a great plantation.
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(At first glance, Robert Manson Myers', From Beowulf to Vi...)
At first glance, Robert Manson Myers', From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf (Bobbs-Merrill, 1952), would appear to be a light survey of English literature for the period indicated in the title--a slim volume for such a lengthy range of years and a cartoonish illustration on the cover. But a second glance picks up on the subtitle (astounding and wholly unauthorized), which seems odd right away. Then you read the caption under the cover illustration, William the Conqueror. Light survey gives way to light-hearted and later to downright humorous survey.
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( From The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James's riveting nove...)
From The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James's riveting novel of courtship and marriage in Edwardian England, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a taut drama unfolding sharp tensions between a domineering mother and a vacillating son as inheritance of a magnificent country house thwarts a delicate courtship, precipitates a disastrous marriage, and propels events to a denouement at once devastating and bitterly ironic. The action takes place in the drawing room of Ricks, a country house in Poynton Park, Essex, England, toward the end of the nineteenth century.
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Myers, Robert Manson was born on May 29, 1921 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Son of Horwood Prettyman and Matilda Manson (Wynn) Myers.
Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 1941; Master of Arts, Columbia, 1942; Master of Arts, Harvard, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1948.
Instructor English, Yale, 1945-1947; assistant professor, College William and Mary, 1947-1948; assistant professor, Tulane University, 1948-1954; teacher English, Brearley School, New York City, 1954-1956; department chairman English, Osbourn High School, Manassas, Virginia, 1956-1959; member of faculty, U. Maryland., College Park, since 1959; Professor of English, U. Maryland., 1968-1986; professor emeritus, U. Maryland., since 1986.
( From The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James's riveting nove...)
( From Henry James's brilliant evocation of the social sc...)
(At first glance, Robert Manson Myers', From Beowulf to Vi...)
(The remarkable Civil War letters of a Georgia plantation ...)
(Book one of three in the 'Children of Pride' saga, a true...)
(Three titles in this Children of Pride series: 1) Many Ma...)
(The last, and quite possible most moving of the six books...)
(Astounding and Wholly Unauthorized History of English Lit...)
(English Literature, Literary Studies)
Member board visitors Winthrop University. Member Modern Language Association American, American Society 18th Century Studies, Jane Austen Society North America, Phi Beta Kappa.