MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03569mam a2200433 a 4500
001 3016074
005 20221019193206.0
008 000724t20012001nyuacf b 001 0beng
010 $a 00060918
020 $a0385494688
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm44775379
035 $9ATG2800CU
035 $a(NNC)3016074
035 $a3016074
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dJBO$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us-ma$an-us---
050 00 $aPE64.A78$bW47 2001
082 00 $a810.9$aB$221
100 1 $aWerth, Barry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93078320
245 14 $aThe scarlet professor :$bNewton Arvin : a literary life shattered by scandal /$cBarry Werth.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNan A. Talese,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $a325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Books by Newton Arvin": p. [305].
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-312) and index.
520 1 $a"Newton Arvin (1900-1963) was one of America's most esteemed literary critics, admired by Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman, and mentor to Truman Capote. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and in 1951 won the National Book Award for his biography of Herman Melville. As a scholar and writer, Arvin focused on the secret, psychological drives of such American masters as Melville and Nathanial Hawthorne and identified the witch-hunt mentality that lies deep in the American psyche.".
520 8 $a"Born and raised in the constrained society of Protestant Indiana, Arvin was a social radical and an unproclaimed homosexual. A distinguished professor at Smith College, he came through the Red Scare relatively unscathed. But when the national antismut campaign followed, his apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, was searched and relatively mild homoerotic materials were confiscated.
520 8 $aHe was arrested for possession of pornography, accused in the press of being a leader of a "smut ring," and forced to choose between friendship and survival. After naming several men, he despaired in his own guilt and confusion and banished himself to the state mental institution overlooking the Smith campus. From there public shame and the fear of his associates began to unravel his connections with the esteemed institutions that had been the cornerstones of his life.".
520 8 $a"In The Scarlet Professor, Barry Werth probes into the virulence with which even the most marginal "sins" are pursued in the fever of America's recurring puritanical crusades. His insights into the tangle of political and moralistic fanaticism underlying America's social landscape provide a forthright and compelling perspective on the dangers of a society where the possibility of a "private life" no longer exists."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aArvin, Newton,$d1900-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50001964
600 10 $aCapote, Truman,$d1924-1984$xFriends and associates.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117578
650 0 $aEnglish teachers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102653
650 0 $aBiographers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009117070
650 0 $aGay men$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105071
610 20 $aSmith College$xFaculty$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hPE64.A78$iW47 2001