Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s 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.
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Recensione:
"Edmund Wilson, who epitomized the man of letters for this century and who relished his role as the nation's leading literary curmudgeon and dictator, comes brilliantly to life in this wide-ranging collection of essays edited by his biographer, Lewis Dabney. Not only do we get acute explorations of Wilson's criticism but incisive pieces on his other writing and on aspects of his long disorderly life. Professor Dabney, his contributors, and the Princeton University Press are to be congratulated for this celebration of Wilson as he triumphantly passes his centennial and doggedly sets sail for another century."--George Core, Editor, The Sewanee Review
"Memories of the man, scholar, drinker, libertine, are mostly amused, affectionate and forbearing."--The New York Times Book Review
"Edmund Wilson ... comes brilliantly to life in this wide-ranging collection of essays.... Not only do we get acute explorations of Wilson's criticism but incisive pieces on his other writing."--George Core, editor, The Sewanee Review
Contenuti:
| Contributors | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Edmund Wilson: Three Phases | 15 |
| The Religion of the Enlightenment | 27 |
| Wilson's Romanticism | 35 |
| Wilson's Modernism | 39 |
| The Writer's Eye | 53 |
| Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism | 70 |
| A Reading of the Journals | 91 |
| The Perspective of Biography: 1929, A Turning Point | 109 |
| Remembering Edmund Wilson | 135 |
| The Admirable Minotaur of Money Hill | 154 |
| Revisiting the Critic on the Scrolls | 169 |
| Wilson's Lenin | 177 |
| The Independent Radical Observer | 186 |
| Wilson and Soviet Russia | 195 |
| Patriotic Gore and the Introduction | 208 |
| Omissions in Patriotic Gore | 221 |
| A Great Man's Limitations | 233 |
| Wilson Divided | 240 |
| Edmund Wilson in His Times | 253 |
| Wilson and Our Non-Wilsonian Age | 266 |
| Afterword | 276 |
| Index | 285 |
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- EditorePrinceton Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1997
- ISBN 10 0691016720
- ISBN 13 9780691016726
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine293
- RedattoreDabney Lewis M.