John Fiske
(1842-1901)
Berman,
Milton. John Fiske. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1961. As John Higham points out, "Whenever possible [the]
author puts an ungenerous construction on Fiske's intellectual
performance." (New England Quarterly 351962:556) Despite
the bias, the work is credible, with an excellent bibliographical
essay. Based on a Harvard dissertation.
Clark,
John Spencer, ed. The Life and Letters of John Fiske. 2
vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. About 100 pages on Fiske's
life in Middletown, where he grew up, until he went off to Harvard
in 1860. A Spencerian interpretation of America's leading popularizer
of Spencerian thinking. Index. No citations, but a thoroughly
scholarly study nonetheless. Forty illustrations.
Commager,
Henry Steele. "John Fiske." Proceedings of the
Massachusetts Historical Society 66(1942). Probably the most
insightful piece on Fiske. Commager is a distinguished historian.
Fiske,
E. F., ed. Letters of John Fiske. New York: Macmillan,
1940.
Hart,
Albert Bushnell. "The Historical Service of John Fiske."
Connecticut Magazine 7(1902-03)5:611-17. This is a collection
of excerpts from a longer piece, published in The International
Monthly, which we have not located. It is an uncritical appreciation
by a major professional historian.
Winston,
George Parsons. John Fiske. New York: Twayne, 1972. Winston
appraises Fiske as not a major figure, though one not to be forgotten.
Fiske is "a real live Victorian." Somewhat pedestrian.
Brief bibliography; citations; index.
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