Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by Harvard in connection with its program to promote the study of American history, DeVote's lecture on the material of history in the modern historical novel will be broadcast internationally by shortwave radio over the non-commercial station W1XAL of Boston, on 6.04 megacycles...
Distinction between the imaginative recreation of history "as it must have happened" and the old romanticized treatment of great men and brave deeds formed the basis of the second in a series of talks on the "American Historical Novel" given in New Lecture Hall last night by Bernard DeVoto...
...There is no period work, no costume effects, none of the pageantry and formal tableaus which the romantic novel used. When we read his books we feel that they are not daydreams, but the way life...
...English literature wrote an epic about the Troy story without seeing a line of Homer, or even knowing a line in translation. Yet this poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind that swept across the Trojan plains...
Representative of the new school of Civil War novels is "Gone With the Wind" which DeVote termed "important as a phenomenon, but not as a novel. The size of its public is stupendous, the book...