Date of Award
5-1929
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
First Advisor
John F. Duehren
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
Recently some prominent German stated that our literature of to-day is cheapened, because of the vast quantities of it now printed. Ever since the invention of the printing-press made possible a wider and less expensive circulation of reading material, there has been an ever-increasing supply of printed matter. Owing to the continually-growing circle of readers, whose demands vary, there have been found writers who would cater to the lower tastes which are lurking in the nature of every man, but which the well-balanced individual crushes with the heel of his will-power. Coupled with the productions of other authors, those of genuine worth and those of neutrality and futility, the works of these writers have made our output so vast that only a small percentage of it can be called literature.
Recommended Citation
Wilkinson, Clarence R., "The Romantic Movement of the Nineteenth Century in Its Relation to the French Spirit" (1929). Bachelors’ Theses. 2073.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/2073
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Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.