Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power - Rilegato

Barnhisel, Greg

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ISBN 10: 022664720X ISBN 13: 9780226647203

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2024

Riassunto

An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar—and spy—who transformed postwar American culture.

Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor, he helped legitimize the study of American culture and shaped the public’s understanding of literary modernism—significantly, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time, as a spy, recruiter, and cultural diplomat, he connected the academy, the State Department, and even the CIA.

In Code Name Puritan, Greg Barnhisel maps Pearson’s life, from his childhood injury that led to a visible, permanent disability to his wartime counterespionage work neutralizing the Nazis’ spy network to his powerful role in the cultural and political heyday sometimes called the American Century. Written with clarity and informed by meticulous research, Barnhisel’s revelatory portrait of Pearson details how his unique experiences shaped his beliefs about the American character, from the Puritans onward.
 

 

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Informazioni sull'autore

Greg Barnhisel is professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy and James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound, as well as editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War, and the scholarly journal Book History.
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022664720X
• ISBN 13: 9780226647203
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile