LEADER 03989nam 22005535 450 001 9910869157803321 005 20240627125232.0 010 $a3-031-53264-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-53264-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31505980 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31505980 035 $a(CKB)32575377800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-53264-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932575377800041 100 $a20240627d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe "Lives" and Writings of Edith Rickert (1871-1938) $eNovelist, Cryptologist, and World-Class Chaucerian /$fby Christina von Nolcken 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (357 pages) 311 $a3-031-53263-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "Foundations" -- PART I: First Things, 1871-1900 -- 1. With the Family -- 2. Vassar College, 1887-1891 -- 3. "A New Place" -- 4. "The Wide, Wide World," 1896-1897 -- 5. Vassar Again, 1897-1900 -- PART II: With Kate, 1900-1909 -- 6. "Happy Beyond the Telling" -- 7. Shetland -- 8. "In the Depths".-9. Tibbles -- 10. "It Ought to Be Enough" -- 11. Into the Sunshine -- 12. Return to the States -- 13. Boston, 1909-1910 -- PART III: With Manly, 1910-1938 -- 14. Re-enter John Matthews Manly -- 15. Chicago, 1911-1917 -- 16. Washington DC, 1917-1918 -- 17. After the War, 1919-1924 -- 18. Associate Professor, 1924-1930 -- 19. Later Fiction -- 20. Professor -- 21. Last Things. . 330 $aThis biography represents a nuanced account of Edith Rickert?s life?and inner life. It follows Rickert?s own writing and draws attention to her life as a writer. Rickert has been long remembered as a medievalist, but she also contributed to American scholarship, pedagogy, and codicology. Born into a family of very modest means in Canal Dover, Ohio, she numbered among the University of Chicago?s earliest doctoral students (1895-1899) and was among the first eight women to reach the top of that University's professorial ladder. She prepared what remains the definitive edition of the medieval romance Emaré. She documented aspects of the medieval, as well as Chaucer?s life, with a historian?s accuracy and a novelist?s insight. In the Ladies Home Journal she wrote on women's issues that remain pressing today. With University of Chicago professor John Matthews Manly (1865-1940), she prepared numerous readers and textbooks, including several that helped put contemporary British and American literature on the academic map. Again in collaboration with Manly, she was responsible for what has been described as ?perhaps the most important of the MI-8 solutions? during World War I,as well as the eight-volume edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1940). Rickert also published short stories, novels, poems, and essays. As this biography shows, Rickert's achievement as a writer was equal to her work as a literary critic. Christina von Nolcken is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago, USA. 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aEducation in literature 606 $aLiterary Criticism 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aLiterature and Pedagogy 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aEducation in literature. 615 14$aLiterary Criticism. 615 24$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aLiterature and Pedagogy. 676 $a809.89287 700 $aNolcken$b Christina von$01771044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910869157803321 996 $aThe "Lives" and Writings of Edith Rickert (1871-1938)$94255390 997 $aUNINA