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Barrett Wendell

 
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: Barrett Wendell
Wendell, Barrett (wĕn'dəl) , 1855–1921, American teacher and scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1877. He taught at Harvard (1880–1917) and lectured at Cambridge and the Sorbonne. Among his works are a study of Cotton Mather (1891) and A Literary History of America (1900), the outgrowth of the first course in the subject at Harvard.

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See M. A. De W. Howe, Barrett Wendell and His Letters (1924).

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(1855-1921)

1900A Literary History of America. The professor who taught the first course at Harvard on American literature produces one of the first comprehensive American literary histories.

 
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Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/  Read more
Works. The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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