Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic (* 19. August 1856 in Utica, N.Y.; † 19. Oktober 1898 in Surrey, England[1]) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er zog 1884 nach England, um als Londoner Korrespondent der New York Times tätig zu werden. 1898 wurde er in das National Institute of Arts and Letters gewählt.[2]

Harold Frederic

Werke (Auswahl)

In the Valley, a story of 1777 (1890)
The Copperhead and Other Stories of the North During the American War (1894); 2013 in Copperhead filmisch adaptiert[3]
March Hares (1896)
Illumination (UK)/The Damnation of Theron Ware (US) (1896)
Gloria Mundi (1898)
The market-place (postum 1899), E-Book bei NetLibrary

Thomas O’Donnell (Hrsg.): Harold Frederic's stories of York State, Vorwort v. Edmund Wilson, Syracuse University Press 1966
NA als The Civil War Stories by Harold Frederic, Syracuse University Press 1992
Bridget Bennett: The Damnation of Harold Frederic: his lives and works, Syracuse Univ. Press 1997
Jean S. Filetti: An examination of political pessimism in the works of American novelist Harold Frederic, Mellen 1998

Susan Albertine: „With Their Tongues Doom Men to Death“: Christian Science and the Case of Harold Frederic. In: American Literary Realism, 1870–1910. Vol. 21, Nr. 3. University of Illinois Press, 1989, S. 52–66.
Members: Harold Frederic. American Academy of Arts and Letters, abgerufen am 12. April 2020 (englisch).
Sidney Blumenthal: Romanticizing the Villains of the Civil War. In: The Atlantic. 22. Juni 2003, abgerufen am 12. April 2020 (englisch): „The newly released film Copperhead is in the same tradition as Gone with the Wind and Gods and Generals. Its history is highly revisionist.“

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