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Edmund Wilson S America
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Author : George H. Douglas
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-11-21
Edmund Wilson S America written by George H. Douglas and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams. In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged from Harding to Nixon, from bathtub gin to marijuana. Douglas here surveys Wilson's mordant observations on the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, income tax, suburbia, sex, populist politics, the Vietnam War, the Great Society, the failure of American scholarship, pollution of the landscape, and the breakdown of traditional American values. The Wilson who emerges from this survey is a historical writer with deep and unshakable roots in Jeffersonian democracy. Among his most far-seeing and poignant books are studies of the literature of the American Civil War and of the treatment of the American Indian. Pained by the crumbling moral order, Wilson was never completely at home in the twentieth century. In politics he was neither a liberal nor a conservative as those terms are understood today. He endured those ideologies and their adherents, but his genius was that he could bring them into hard focus from the perspective of the traditional American individualist who was too pained to accept the standardized commercial world that had grown up around him. Edmund Wilson's America offers a distinctive overview of the nation's life and culture as seen and judged by its leading man of letters.
Classics And Commercials
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Author : Edmund Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2019-11-12
Classics And Commercials written by Edmund Wilson and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edmund Wilson
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Author : Leonard Kriegel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Edmund Wilson written by Leonard Kriegel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Leonard Kriegel examines Wilson s principal nonfiction works in depth: "Axel" "s Castle," " "which he finds a classic in its own right; "To the Finland Station," " "which he holds to be Wilson s finest work; and "The American Jitters," " Travels in Two Democracies," " The Triple Thinkers," " Patriotic Gore," " The Wound and the Bow," " "and "Europe Without Baedecker," " "with which, taken together, Mr. Kriegel feels, Wilson has assured himself a permanent position in America s cultural legacy because of his unparalleled fusion of intelligence and lucidity."
Edmund Wilson
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Author : Lewis M. Dabney
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2005-08-03
Edmund Wilson written by Lewis M. Dabney and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships with Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov, among others--in openly erotic fiction and journals, but Lewis Dabney is the first writer to integrate the life and work. Dabney traces the critic's intellectual development, from son of small-town New Jersey gentry to America's last great renaissance man, a deep commentator on everything from the Russian classics to Native American rituals to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Along the way, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained--in his cosmopolitanism and trenchant nonconformity--a model for young writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite critic of the general reader. Edmund Wilson will be recognized as the lasting biography of this brilliant man whose life reflected so much of the cultural, social, and human experience of a turbulent century.
The Edmund Wilson Reader
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Author : Edmund Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1997-08-21
The Edmund Wilson Reader written by Edmund Wilson and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A gifted novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) served on the staffs of "Vanity Fair, The New Republic" and "The New Yorker", but is best known for the grace and insight of his literary criticism. Here in one volume is a representative selection from Wilson's diverse oeuvre that offers readers the opportunity to partake of an incomparable intellectual feast.
Edmund Wilson
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Author : Lewis M. Dabney
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Edmund Wilson written by Lewis M. Dabney and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920's through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums held at the Mercantile Library and at Princeton University in 1995, Wilson's centennial year. At these occasions, prominent critics, literary journalists, and historians aired a variety of points of view about his work and personality. Assembled and edited by Lewis Dabney, this book shows new intellectual voices interacting with veterans who knew Wilson and his times. In the first part, Morris Dickstein, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, David Bromwich, Jed Perl, and Mark Krupnick comment on Wilson's development as a critic, his faith in reason and his personal romanticism, his version of modernism and eclectic interest in the arts, as well as the sources of his later writing about Judaism. In the second section, a reading of the journals from The Twenties to The Sixties by Neale Reinitz and a chapter from Dabney's biography-in-progress lead to the reminiscences of Elizabeth Hardwick, Jason Epstein, Mary Meigs, Roger Straus, and Alfred Kazin, as well as Michael C. D. Macdonald, the son of family friends, and the Dead Sea Scrolls scholar James Sanders giving an authentic sense of Wilson's place in the literary life. Two of his important works, the study of the Marxist intellectual tradition in To the Finland Station and of Civil War literature in Patriotic Gore, anchor the discussion in the third part. Here David Remnick and Daniel Aaron debate his radical commitment, joined by Arthur Schlesinger and others in a vigorous exchange, and Randall Kennedy's attack on Wilson's neglect of nineteenth-century black writers provokes a response from Toni Morrison. Instructive essays by Andrew Delbanco and Louis Menand, and discerning comments by Paul Berman and Sean Wilentz round out the volume. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
I Thought Of Daisy
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Author : Edmund Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2001
I Thought Of Daisy written by Edmund Wilson and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
A young man leaves his bohemian lifestyle in Greenwich Village to pursue the chorus girl he loves.
Edmund Wilson
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Author : Jeffrey Meyers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Edmund Wilson written by Jeffrey Meyers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This pioneering life of Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) completes the trilogy on modern American writers that Jeffrey Meyers began with his biographies of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Wilson, whom Gore Vidal called "America's best mind", had extraordinarily wide interests that ranged far beyond literature. He wrote about art, theater, music, film, and popular culture as well as political events, foreign travel, the revolutionary tradition in Europe, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Zuni and Iroquois Indians, the American Civil War, the culture and politics of Canada. He was a master of the biographical essay and the autobiographical memoir and was the greatest diarist of his time. Wilson's life was as interesting as his books and, in its own way, as romantic and chaotic as Fitzgerald's. He lived in bohemian poverty in the 1920s and '30s, suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife, had three other wives (including Mary McCarthy), attracted an astonishing number of beautiful mistresses (including Edna St. Vincent Millay), and was a compulsive chronicler of his own sexual adventures.
Edmund Wilson
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Author : Warner Berthoff
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1968-06
Edmund Wilson written by Warner Berthoff and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Edmund Wilson - American Writers 67 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
An Edmund Wilson Celebration
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Author : Edmund Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
An Edmund Wilson Celebration written by Edmund Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Biography & Autobiography categories.