• Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900 – May 24, 2004) was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th century American literature...
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  • middle-distance runner Edward Wagenknecht (1900–2004), American literary critic Lukáš Wagenknecht (born 1978), Czech economist Max Wagenknecht (1857–1922), German...
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    command of the language. In his 1983 book, The Novels of Henry James, Edward Wagenknecht offers an assessment that echoes Theodora Bosanquet's: "To be completely...
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    scene between Isabel and Goodwood has been especially applauded. Edward Wagenknecht wrote that James "makes it as clear as any modern novelist could make...
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    riot of the carnivalesque". Similarly, the literary and film scholar Edward Wagenknecht described the film as a work "satirizing the pretensions of professors...
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    published in 2013. In a 1946 discussion of fantastic literature, Edward Wagenknecht referred to "Hope Mirrlees' unappreciated masterpiece Lud-in-the-Mist"...
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    critic Edward Wagenknecht declares that Miss Robinson Crusoe “does not deserve to be memorialized; it must have been a terrible picture.” Wagenknecht, who...
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    "poorish" and said, "The only good thing in the story is the girl." Edward Wagenknecht noted that it "has certainly attracted more favorable attention."...
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  • included in The Fireside Book of Romance (c. 1948), edited by C. Edward Wagenknecht. The Inn of Disenchantment was published in 1917 by the Houghton Mifflin...
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    dimensions in the cinema and raised it to a level of great tragic art.”—Edward Wagenknecht in The Movies in the Age of Innocence (1962). Broken Blossoms premiered...
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