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Columbia Encyclopedia: 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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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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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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