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Scheick, William Joseph was born on July 15, 1941 in Newark. Son of Joseph Edward and Irene Louise (Corvi) Scheick.
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Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason As Religious and Political Ideal
(This study discloses the intellectual context and the per...)
This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine's assault on religion in The Age of Reason. Illustrated.
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The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century
( The romance genre was a popular literary form among wri...)
The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but since then it has often been dismissed as juvenile, unmodern, improper, or subversive. In this study, William J. Scheick seeks to recover the place of romance in fin-de-siècle England and America; to distinguish among its subgenres of eventuary, aesthetic, and ethical romance; and to reinstate ethical romance as a major mode of artistic expression. The authors whose works Scheick discusses are Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. Rider Haggard, Henry James, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, H. G. Wells, John Kendrick Bangs, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane, Mary Austin, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Cholmondeley, and Rudyard Kipling. This wide selection expands the canon to include writers and works that highly merit re-reading by a new generation.
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The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of H. G. Wells (Els Monograph Series)
(The notion that Wells's best work includes some of his la...)
The notion that Wells's best work includes some of his later discursive novels of ideas might seem perverse. This focuses on Wells's fiction of the 1920s and 1930s and its goal is to deepen appreciation of Wells as a literary artist. Any consideration of Wells's artistry necessarily entails a consideration of his ideas, and this book focuses primarily on his concept of time and of the human will.
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William Joseph Scheick
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William Joseph Scheick, American Educator, author. Recipient Pushcart prize, Pushcart Press, New York, 1991. Member Modern Language Association, International Society for Study of Nuclear Texts and Contexts, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, English Literature in Transition, Society Early Americanists.
Education
Bachelor, Montclair State College, New Jersey, 1963; Master of Arts, University of Illinois, Chanpaign, Urbana, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chanpaign, Urbana, 1969.
Career
Assistant, professor, University Texas, Austin, Texas, 1969-1974; associate professor, University Texas, Austin, Texas, 1974-1979; full professor, University Texas, Austin, Texas, 1979-1986; Professor of English and American Literature, University Texas, Austin, Texas, since 1986.
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The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century
( The romance genre was a popular literary form among wri...)
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Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason As Religious and Political Ideal
(This study discloses the intellectual context and the per...)
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The Splintering Frame: The Later Fiction of H. G. Wells (Els Monograph Series)
(The notion that Wells's best work includes some of his la...)
- Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason As Religious and Political Id
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The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century
Membership
Member Modern Language Association, International Society for Study of Nuclear Texts and Contexts, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, English Literature in Transition, Society Early Americanists.
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