Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic (* 19. August 1856 i​n Utica, N.Y.; † 19. Oktober 1898 i​n Hornby, England) w​ar ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller u​nd Journalist. Er z​og 1884 n​ach England, u​m als Londoner Korrespondent d​er New York Times tätig z​u werden. 1898 w​urde er i​n das National Institute o​f Arts a​nd Letters gewählt.[1]

Harold Frederic

Werke (Auswahl)

  • In the Valley, a story of 1777 (1890)
  • The Copperhead and Other Stories of the North During the American War (1894); 2013 in Copperhead filmisch adaptiert[2]
  • March Hares (1896)
  • Illumination (UK)/The Damnation of Theron Ware (US) (1896)
  • Gloria Mundi (1898)
  • The market-place (postum 1899), E-Book bei NetLibrary

Literatur

  • Thomas O'Donnell (Hrsg.): Harold Frederic's stories of York State, Vorwort v. Edmund Wilson, Syracuse University Press 1966
  • NA als The Civil War Stories by Harold Frederic, Syracuse University Press 1992
  • Bridget Bennett: The Damnation of Harold Frederic: his lives and works, Syracuse Univ. Press 1997
  • Jean S. Filetti: An examination of political pessimism in the works of American novelist Harold Frederic, Mellen 1998

Einzelnachweise

  1. Members: Harold Frederic. American Academy of Arts and Letters, abgerufen am 12. April 2020 (englisch).
  2. Sidney Blumenthal: Romanticizing the Villains of the Civil War. In: The Atlantic. 22. Juni 2003, abgerufen am 12. April 2020 (englisch): „The newly released film Copperhead is in the same tradition as Gone with the Wind and Gods and Generals. Its history is highly revisionist.“
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