Lewis Freeman Mott
Lewis Freeman Mott (1863 – November 20, 1941) was an American English scholar, born in New York and educated at the City College (S.B., 1883) and at Columbia (Ph.D., 1896). He taught at City College where he became professor in 1897 and from which he retired in 1934. Mott served as president of the Modern Language Association in 1911. He wrote The System of Courtly Love (1894),[1] The Provencal Lyric (1901) and Sainte-Beuve (1925).[2]
Lewis Freeman Mott
His wife, Alice Garrigue Mott (1861–1948), was the younger sister of Tomáš Masaryk's wife.
References
- Johan Vising (1898). Review: The System of Courtly Love studied as an introduction to the Vita Nuova of Dante by Lewis Freeman Mott. Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur 20: 40–43 JSTOR 40613535
- Horatio E. Smith (1926). Review: Sainte-Beuve. by Lewis Freeman Mott. Modern Language Notes 41 (1): 67–70 doi:10.2307/2913905
External links
- Works by Lewis Freeman Mott at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Lewis Freeman Mott at Internet Archive
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