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French Dramatists Of The 19th Century (1905)

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Brander Matthews

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James Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 in New OrleansMarch 31, 1929 in New York City), was a U.S. writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature. He graduated from Columbia College in 1871, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society and St. Anthony Hall, and from Columbia Law School in 1873, but turned to a literary career. From 1892 to 1900 he was professor of literature at Columbia, and thereafter held the chair of dramatic literature. His influence was such that a popular pun claimed that an entire generation had been "brandered by the same Matthews".

During his tenure at Columbia, Matthews created and curated a "dramatic museum" of costumes, scripts, props, and other stage memorabilia. Originally housed in a four-room complex in Philosophy Hall, the collection was broken up and sold after his death. However, its books were incorporated into the university library system and its dioramas of the Globe Theatre and other historic dramatic venues have been dispersed for public display around campus, mainly in Dodge Hall. Matthews was also remembered as the inspiration for the now-destroyed Brander Matthews Theater on 117th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. An English professorship in his name still exists at Columbia.

Activities

He was one of the founders of the Authors' Club and of the Players' Club, both of New York; one of the organizers of the American Copyright League; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and president (1913) of the National Institute of Arts and Letters; the first chairman (1906) of the Simplified Spelling Board; and president of the Modern Language Association of America (1910). In 1907 the French government decorated him with the Legion of Honor.

Twain's criticism of

In his essay critiquing the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," Mark Twain criticizes Matthews' statements concerning the merits of Cooper's literary works.

Works

His works cover various topics and subjects.
* "The Theatres of Paris" (1880)
* "French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century" (1881; revised in 1891 and 1901)
* "Margery's Lovers" (1884)
* "Actors and Actresses of the United States and Great Britain" (five volumes, 1886), with Laurence Hutton
* "In the Vestibule Limited" (1892)
* "Americanisms and Briticisms" (1892)
* "The Decision of the Court" (1893)
* "Vignettes of Manhattan" (1894)
* "Studies of the Stage" (1894)
* "His Father's Son" (1895), a novel
* "Aspects of Fiction" (1896; revised in 1902)
* "An Introduction to the Study of American Literature" (1896)
* "Studies in Local Color" (1898)
* "A Confident To-Morrow" (1900)
* "The Action and the Word" (1900)
* "The Historical Novel and Other Essays" (1901)
* "Parts of Speech, Essays on English" (1901)
* "The Philosophy of the Short-Story" (1901)
* "The Development of the Drama" (1903)
* "The Short Story" (1907)
* "Americans of the Future and Other Essays" (1909)
* "Molière: His Life and Works" (1910)
* "Introduction to the Study of American literature" (1911)
* "Shakespeare as a Playwright" (1913)
* "On Acting" (1914)
* "The Oxford Book of American Essays" (1914)
* "These Many Years" (1917), his autobiography
* "Principles of Playmaking" (1919)
* "Playwrights on Playmaking" (1923)

Further reading

*cite journal|last=Ashton|first=Susanna M.|title=Authorial Affiliations, Brander Matthews in Partnership|journal= [http://www.symploke.org/ Symploke: A Journal of Comparative Theory and Literature] |volume=7|issue=1-2|year=2000
*Oliver, Lawrence J. "Brander Matthews, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Politics of American Literature, 1880-1920", (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992), 254p.

External links

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