The Life of John Middleton Murry - Brossura

Lea, F.A.

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ISBN 10: 1032069600 ISBN 13: 9781032069609

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

Riassunto

First Published in 1959, The Life of John Middleton Murry is the first biography of one of the most controversial figures in English letters. Many people know Middleton Murry in one or other of his capacities: as editor (of the avant-grade magazine Rhythm, while he was still an undergraduate, of The Athenaeum in its last, most brilliant phase, The Adelphi in the 1920s, Peace News in the ‘40s); as the foremost critique of his day; as author of some forty books on literary, religious and social questions; as the husband of Katherine Mansfield and intimate of D.H. Lawrence; as prophet, politician or farmer…. Few, even of his most vigorous champions or opponents, discerned the consistent purpose uniting all his multifarious activities. To trace that is the principal aim of this book. Believing that the duty of the ‘official biographer’ is rather to present than interpret, the author makes no attempt to evaluate Murry’s theories objectively, confining himself to showing how intimately they grew out of his strange, tragic (and occasionally comic) experience. At the same time, he makes no secret of his own view of Murry’s significance both as a thinker and as ‘the representative figure of an age of breakneck social transition’.

The Life of John Middleton Murry will be of interest to scholars and researchers of historical biographies, British history, and literature.

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Informazioni sull'autore

F.A. Lea

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032069600
• ISBN 13: 9781032069609
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 410
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania