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Charles Joret

Charles Joret (14 October 1839, Formigny – 27 December 1914, Paris) was a French literary historian, philologist and botanical author.


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Alfred Lyall

Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835–1911), British civil servant, literary historian and poet

Bickley

Peter Courtney Quennell (1905-1993), biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.

British women's literature of World War I

Literary historian David Trotter asserts that the addition of women’s writing helps provide a more encompassing, and thus, stronger picture of Britain’s involvement in the First World War.

Chłopomania

Literary historian John Neubauer described it as part of late 19th century "populist strains" in the literature of East-Central Europe, in close connection to the agrarianist Głos magazine (published in Congress Poland) and with the ideas of Estonian cultural activists Jaan Tõnisson and Villem Reiman.

Clare Ann Matz

Clare Matz was born in New York, one of the five children of Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and the poet and literary historian Charles A. Matz Jr.

Conforte

David Conforte (c. 1618 – c. 1685), Greek-born Hebrew literary historian and writer

Cornelius Mathews

American literary historian Perry Miller, writing in The Raven and the Whale, suggested that Herman Melville was influenced by Mathew's Behemoth when writing Moby-Dick.

Daiches

David Daiches (1912-2005), Scottish literary historian and literary critic

Dănilă Prepeleac

According to literary historian George Bădărău, "Dănilă Prepeleac" is one of Creangă's writings were the fairy tale context meets "realistic fantasy".

Ducktown, Tennessee

Literary historian Ben Harris McClary suggests that a Ducktown-area farmer named William "Sut" Miller (d. 1858) was the inspiration for the George Washington Harris character, Sut Lovingood.

Ferdinand Wüstenfeld

Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808-1899) was a German orientalist, known as a literary historian of Arabic literature, born at Münden, Hanover.

Josip Ferfolja

He attended high school in Gorizia, an important Slovene educational centre at the time; Ferfolja's school friends included historian Bogumil Vošnjak, economist Milko Brezigar, poet Alojz Gradnik, writer Ivan Pregelj, literary historian Avgust Žigon, and the prelate Luigi Fogar.

Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas

Juozas Tumas, also known by the pen name Vaižgantas (September 20, 1869 - April 29, 1933), was a prominent Lithuanian writer, Roman Catholic priest, social activist, literary historian, and one of the founders of the Party of National Progress.

Milivoj

Milivoj Solar, a Croatian literary theoretician, literary historian, essayist and a university professor

Nanjing University Literature School

Gao Ming (高明), a literary historian, the first doctoral professor in Chinese Literature, in Taiwan

Øystein Rottem

His most widespread works as a literary historian are the three last volumes of Norsk Litteraturhistorie, covering the period after World War II, Fra Brekke til Mehren 1945–1965 (volume 6, published 1995), Inn i medietidsalderen 1965–1980 (volume 7, 1997) and Vår egen tid 1980–1998 (volume 8, 1998).

Pavličić

Pavao Pavličić (b. 1946), Croatian writer, literary historian and translator

Standish O'Grady

Standish James O'Grady (1846–1928), Irish historical novelist and literary historian

Stepan Shevyryov

Stepan Petrovich Shevyryov (Степа′н Петро′вич Шевырё′в, October 30 (18), 1806, Saratov, Russian Empire, - May 20 (8), 1864, Paris, France) was a conservative Russian literary historian and poet, a virulent critic of "the rotting West", and leading representative of the Official Nationality theory.

Zdzisław Żygulski

Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr. (1888–1975), Polish literary historian and Germanist