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Bowen
British (Irish-born) novelist and short-story writer. Among her novels are The House in Paris (1935), The Death of the Heart (1938), and The Heat of the Day (1949). Her short-story collections include The Demon Lover (1945). Her finely wrought prose style frequently details uneasy and unfulfilling relationships among the upper middle class. Her essays appear in Collected Impressions (1950) and Afterthought (1962).
comedy
Genre of dramatic literature that deals with the light and amusing, or with the serious and profound in a light, familiar, or satirical manner. Comedy can be traced to revels associated with worship in Greece in the 5th cent. BC. Aristophanes, Menander, Terence, and Plautus produced comedies in classical literature. It reappeared in the late Middle Ages, when the term was used to mean simply a story with a happy ending (e.g., Dante's Divine Comedy), the same meaning it has in novels of the last three centuries (e.g., the fiction of J. Austen). See also tragedy.
Gower
English poet. His works, in the tradition of courtly love and moral allegory, strongly influenced other poets of his day. His friend G. Chaucer called him "moral Gower." His Speculum meditantis (c.1374-78), written in French, is an allegorical work on vices and virtues. Vox clamantis (1385?), his major Latin poem, owes much to Ovid. His greatest work in English is the Confessio Amantis (begun c.1386), a long collection of exemplary tales of love.
Howe
U.S. critic and educator. Raised in New York tenements, Howe graduated from CCNY and taught at Brandeis and Stanford universities and the City Univ. of New York. He helped found the left-wing magazine Dissent, which he edited from 1953. He wrote critical works on S. Anderson (1951), W. Faulkner (1952), and T. Hardy (1967) and synthesized his political and literary interests in such works as Politics and the Novel (1957). World of Our Fathers (1976) is a major study of Jewish immigrants in New York. He also edited anthologies of Yiddish literature.
Lowell
City (pop., 1996 est.: 101,000), NE Massachusetts. Settled in 1653 as E. Chelmsford, it became a major center of cotton-textile manufacturing in the 19th cent. It was renamed for industrialist F. Lowell, and was incorporated as a city in 1836. In the 20th cent. it began losing textile manufacturing to S states, and it diversified into other industries. The Lowell National Historical Park (established 1978) commemorates the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. It is the birthplace of the artist J. A. M. Whistler and the seat of the Univ. of Massachusetts-Lowell.
power
In science and engineering, the time rate of doing work or delivering energy. Power (P) can be expressed as the amount of work done (W), or energy transferred, divided by the time interval (t): P = W/t. A given amount of work can be done by a low-powered motor in a long time or by a ...
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