Date of Award

6-1931

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Abstract

Literary critics have for the most part passed over the Character-writers. They have made the history of the essay consist in a mere evaluation of the relative merits of the Essais of Montaigne; the periodical essays of Addison, Steele and others; the familiar essay of Lamb; and the more or less formal essays of Bacon and Carlyle; not to mention a host of other classical essayists like Newman, Ruskin, De Quincey, and Hazlitt. Besides these we have our modern essayists, among whom are Belloc, Morley, and Chesterton, chronicled in almost every History or Criticism. Not only do we find them in the aforementioned but taking up a collection of essays we see selections from their works. However, rarely do we see any mention of Character-writers or selections from them in our anthologies. It is my opinion that not one out of every fifty college Seniors can name a Character-writer offhand .

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

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