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Howard Mumford Jones (1892–1980)

Author of O Strange New World

41+ Works 304 Members 1 Review

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Includes the names: Howard Mumford Jones, Howard Mumford Jones, Howard Jones; Mumford, Ed. Howard Mumford Jones, et al (eds) Howard Mumford Jones, selected and ed Howard Mumford Jones

Works by Howard Mumford Jones

O Strange New World (1964) 66 copies

The Age of Energy: Varieties of American Experience, 1865-1915 (1899) 45 copies

Major American Writers (1777) 22 copies

Guide to American literature and its backgrounds since 1890 (1959) 22 copies

The literature of Virginia in the seventeenth century (1968) 17 copies

Revolution & romanticism (1974) 16 copies

The pursuit of happiness (1953) 14 copies

The many voices of Boston : a historical anthology, 1630-1975 (1975) 13 copies

The American Plutarch: 18 Lives Selected from the *Dictionary of American Biography* (1964) — Introduction — 11 copies

The Theory of American Literature (1966) 8 copies

America and French Culture, 1750-1848 (1927) 7 copies

Science Before Darwin: A nineteenth-century anthology (1963) 6 copies

Violence and reason; a book of essays (1969) 6 copies

Major American Writers, Volume 1 (1952) — Editor — 4 copies

Education and World Tragedy: The Rushton Lectures (1946) 4 copies

American humanism: its meaning for world survival (1957) 4 copies

Modern Minds: An Anthology of Ideas (1949) 3 copies

Major American Writers, Volume 2 (1953) 3 copies

Jeffersonianism and the American Novel 3 copies

Belief and disbelief in American literature (1968) 3 copies

The university and the New World (2019) 2 copies

The Harp That Once - A Chronicle of the Life of Thomas Moore (1937) 2 copies

Howard Mumford Jones: An Autobiography. (1979) 2 copies

Ideas in America (1944) 2 copies

One Great Society - Humane Learning in the United States 2 copies

Bright Medusa (1952) 2 copies

The Vultures of Peace ( pamphlet ) 1 copy

"The Colonial Impulse: An Analysis of the Promotional Literature of Colonization," 1 copy

Nation and Region 1860-1900: With a general introduction by the editors and a pr (1968) 1 copy

A treasury of scientific prose, a nineteenth-century anthology 1 copy

Primer of Intellectual Freedom 1 copy

The scholar as American 1 copy

Thomas Wolfe's short stories: Thomas Wolfe, From death to morning 1 copy

The shrine of the word : an essay 1 copy

The life of Moses Coit Tyler 1 copy

What is a university? 1 copy

Belief & Disbelief in American Literature 1 copy

History and the contemporary; essays in nineteenth-century literature 1 copy

Major American Writers, Third Edition 1 copy

The Declaration of Independence : two essays 1 copy

An address to the English Department of Harvard University at a farewell dinner on November 27, 1962 1 copy

Associated Works

Literary history of the United States (1946) — Contributor — 190 copies

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1919) — Contributor — 14 copies

Letters of Sherwood Anderson (1953) — Editor — 13 copies

1935 Essay Annual — Contributor — 4 copies

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Birthdate: 1892-04-16
Date of death: 1980-05-11
Gender: male
Nationality: USA

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Jeffersonianism and the American novel by Howard Mumford Jones

The author won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1964 and wrote America and French Culture, 1759-1848 (1927), The Theory of American Literature (1948), American Humanism: Its Meaning for the World (1957), Reflections on Learning (1958), and O Strange New World (1964). After teaching at various universities, he taught at Harvard beginning in 1936.

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Works: 41
Also by: 4
Members: 304
Popularity: #77,406
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 30

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