Backlog Studies - Dudley Warner, Charles

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Résumé :
A sharp, humane voice from the bustle of nineteenth century America returns to the shelf. This is a work that makes the old feel newly urgent, a reading that asks questions about city life, progress, and what we owe to each other. Backlog Studies gathers crisp essays that blend social satire with critical non fiction, surveying american urban life and industrial era criticism with keen historical eye. Warner's reflections move from bustling streets of urban new england to broader currents of ethical reform, tracing how ideas travel, clash, and endure. The collection remains a lucid guide for scholarly readers and history students alike, offering a window into the debates that shaped a nation and the everyday anxieties that still resonate. Restored for today's readers, this volume carries more than a reprint's breath: it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, attuned to the voices of Mark Twain essays and the Edward Bellamy influences that helped steer public conversation. Its enduring relevance lies in its clarity, its humane humour, and its insistence that literature can illuminate society without surrendering artistry. For casual readers and classic?literature collectors, Backlog Studies offers both accessible charm and rigorous insight into nineteenth century america, urban life, and the moral weather of an era that still speaks to our own. Out of print for decades, Alpha Editions brings this essential work back, restored for today and for future generations....

Biographie:
Charles Dudley Warner was an American author and friend of Mark Twain. He was born September 12, 1829, and died October 20, 1900. Warner wrote essays and novels and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Twain. Warner was raised by Puritans and was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts. He lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, from the age of six to fourteen. He wrote about this time and place in his book Being a Boy (1877). Following that, he went to Cazenovia, New York. In 1851, he graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He worked as a surveyor in Missouri and then went to the University of Pennsylvania to study law. From 1856 to 1860, he worked as a lawyer in Chicago. In 1860, he went to Connecticut to become an assistant editor at The Hartford Press. He became editor of the paper in 1861 and stayed in that job until 1867, when it joined with another paper to become The Hartford Courant. At that time, he became co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley. As of 1892, he was in charge of The Editor's Study at Harper's Magazine, where he had been in charge of The Editor's Drawer since 1884....