Arlin Turner

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Henry Arlin Turner (November 25, 1909, Abilene, Texas – April 24, 1980, Austin, Texas) was an American biographer and professor of English, specializing in American literature of the 19th century.

Biography[]

Arlin Turner graduated from West Texas State Teachers College with bachelor's degree in 1927[1] and from the University of Texas with Ph.D. in 1934.[2] From 1933 to 1936 he taught in the English department of the University of Texas. From 1936 to 1952 he was a member of the department of English at Louisiana State University. During WW II he served in the United States Naval Reserve.[1]

Turner was from 1953 to 1979 a professor at Duke University,[1] where he also chaired the department of English for sixteen years.[3] He retired in 1979 from Duke University as professor emeritus and then from 1979 until his death in 1980 taught at Southwest Texas State University.[2]

Turner wrote four books[3] and more than seventy articles published in scholarly journals.[1] He wrote extensively on Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Washington Cable, and Mark Twain. Turner was managing editor from 1954 to 1963[1] and then editor from 1963 to 1979 for American Literature (published by Duke University Press).[3] He also served on the editorial boards of Resources for American Literary Study,[4] the South Atlantic Quarterly, the Arlington Quarterly, Studies in American Humor, and the Southern Literary Journal.[1]

Turner was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for the academic years 1947–1948 and 1959–1960.[5] In 1958 the Southern Historical Association gave him the Charles S. Sydnor Award for his 1956 biography of George W. Cable.[6] Turner was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature in 1976 from Berea College.[1] In 1980 a collection of literary essays was published in his honor.[7][8] His wife was Thelma Sherrill Turner (1910?–1999).

Selected publications[]

Articles[]

  • Turner, Arlin (1935). "Autobiographical Elements in Hawthorne's "the Blithedale Romance"". Studies in English (15): 39–62. JSTOR 20779463.
  • —— (1936). "Hawthorne's Literary Borrowings". PMLA. 51 (2): 543–562. doi:10.2307/458069. JSTOR 458069.
  • —— (1938). "Hawthorne at Martha's Vineyard". The New England Quarterly. 11 (2): 394–400. doi:10.2307/360719. JSTOR 360719.
  • —— (1940). "The Southern Novel". Southwest Review. 25 (2): 205–212. JSTOR 43462539.
  • —— (1942). "Hawthorne and Reform". The New England Quarterly. 15 (4): 700–714. doi:10.2307/361506. JSTOR 361506.
  • —— (1947). "Sources of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom"". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 46 (3): 298–301. JSTOR 27712891.
  • —— (1949). "Whittier Calls on George W. Cable". The New England Quarterly. 22 (1): 92–96. doi:10.2307/361539. JSTOR 361539.
  • —— (1951). "A Novelist Discovers a Novelist: The Correspondence of H.H. Boyesen and George W. Cable". Western Humanities Review; Salt Lake City. 5 (4): 343.
  • —— (1955). "Mark Twain, Cable, and "A Professional Newspaper Liar"". The New England Quarterly. 28 (1): 18–33. doi:10.2307/362358. JSTOR 362358.
  • —— (1955). "James Lampton, Mark Twain's Model for Colonel Sellers". Modern Language Notes. 70 (8): 592–594. doi:10.2307/3040453. JSTOR 3040453.
  • —— (1958). "Realism and Fantasy in Southern Humor". The Georgia Review. 12 (4): 451–457. JSTOR 41395587.
  • —— (1964). "Nathaniel Hawthorne in American Studies". College English. 26 (2): 133–139. doi:10.2307/373664. JSTOR 373664.
  • —— (1968). "Mark Twain and the South: An Affair of Love and Anger". The Southern Review. 4 (2): 493.
  • —— (1968). "Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)". American Literary Realism, 1870-1910. 1 (3): 18–23. JSTOR 27747597.
  • —— (1972). "George W. Cable on Prison Reform". Huntington Library Quarterly. 36 (1): 69–75. doi:10.2307/3816976. JSTOR 3816976.
  • —— (1975). "Texts of Two Addresses Delivered at the Second Annual Meeting of the American Humor Studies Association of the MLA Convention in San Francisco in December 1975: A "Want-List" for the Study of American Humor". Studies in American Humor. 2 (2): 116–120. JSTOR 42573077.
  • —— (1977). "George W. Cable's Use of the Past". The Mississippi Quarterly. 30 (4): 512–516. JSTOR 26474508.
  • —— (1980). "Interpreting Nineteenth-Century American Literature—A Supplement". American Studies International. 18 (3/4): 5–21. JSTOR 41278634.

Books[]

  • Turner, Arlin, ed. (1941). Hawthorne as Editor. Louisiana University Press.[9]
  • —— (1956). George W. Cable: A Biography. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.[10] 1966 pbk reprint. Louisiana State University Press. March 1966. ISBN 9780807101063.
  • —— (1960). Mark Twain and George W. Cable: A Record of Literary Friendship. Ann Arbor: Michigan State University Press.
  • —— (1961). Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Barnes and Noble; 149 pagesCS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • ——, ed. (1980). Critical essays on George W. Cable. ISBN 9780816182565.[11]
  • —— (1980). Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press.[12][13]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Dent, Heather (author). Grindstaff, Katie (ed.). "Arlin Turner". BEREApedia, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Thorp, Willard (1980). "Arlin Turner, 1909-1980". South Atlantic Quarterly. 80 (1): 1–5.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Smith, Henry Nash (1984). "Book Review of Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner, edited by Louis J. Budd, Edwin H. Cady, and Carl L. Anderson; and 2 other books". The Yearbook of English Studies. 14: 355. doi:10.2307/3508361. JSTOR 3508361.
  4. ^ Simpson, Lewis P. (1980). "Arlin Turner, 1909-1980". Resources for American Literary Study. 10 (2): 117–120. JSTOR 26366131.
  5. ^ "Arlin Turner". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  6. ^ "Charles S. Sydnor Award | Southern Historical Association".
  7. ^ Budd, Louis J.; Cady, Edwin Harrison; Anderson, Carl L., eds. (1980). Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
  8. ^ Tallack, Douglas (1983). "Reviewed work: Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner, edited by Louis J. Budd, Edwin H. Cady, Carl L. Anderson". The Review of English Studies. 34 (133): 114–116. doi:10.1093/res/XXXIV.133.114. JSTOR 517190.
  9. ^ Hawthorne, Manning (January 1, 1942). "Hawthorne as Editor, edited by Arlin Turner (Book Review)". New England Quarterly; Brunswick, Me. 15 (1): 168. doi:10.2307/360248. JSTOR 360248.
  10. ^ Bezou, Henry C. (July 1, 1957). "George W. Cable. A Biography, by Arlin Turner (Book Review)". Catholic Historical Review; Washington. 43 (2): 235.
  11. ^ Richardson, Thomas J. (Summer 1982). "Critical Essays on George W. Cable. Edited by Arlin Turner (Book Review)". Southern Quarterly; Hattiesburg. 20 (4): 112.
  12. ^ Martin, Terence (1980). "Reviewed work: Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography by Arlin Turner". American Literature. 52 (3): 475–477. doi:10.2307/2925286. JSTOR 2925286.
  13. ^ Murphy, Francis (1980). "Reviewed work: Nathaniel Hawthorne by Arlin Turner". The New England Quarterly. 53 (4): 547–549. doi:10.2307/365497. JSTOR 365497.

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