An edition of Edmund Wilson revisited (1998)

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An edition of Edmund Wilson revisited (1998)

Edmund Wilson revisited

From the jazz age to the Nixon years, Edmund Wilson was an intrepid critic, historian, journalist, and creative writer who communicated in the voice of the public intellectual with a general audience and with international peers including Isaiah Berlin and Vladimir Nabokov.

This new, revised edition of a 1985 New York Times Notable Book is about Wilson's passions: his commitment to the writer's craft, his contempt for power politics in his time and in history, his appetite for ancient and modern languages and literatures, and his many loves and eccentricities.

Moving from his 1920s days as a cultural journalist to his 1930s period as a reporter on Depression America to his later years of relentless research and writings on the Civil War, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the panorama of his long life in literature, Edmund Wilson Revisited analyzes the books and opinions that have made Wilson a landmark figure.

Chapters devoted to literary ideas, reporting, revolutionary politics, and personal philosophy reveal grand patterns of a writer's career as they follow his life across the century. Readers will discover Wilson's renaissance outreach as he explored Iroquois Indian customs, Hebrew texts, Marx and Engels, and the work of famous friends such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many other writers whom he brought into focus and championed.

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Language
English
Pages
170

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Edmund Wilson revisited
1998, Twayne Publishers, Prentice Hall International
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-161) and index.

Published in
New York, London
Series
Twayne's United States authors series ;, TUSAS 695

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5209
Library of Congress
PS3545.I6245 Z587 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 170 p. ;
Number of pages
170

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL684780M
Internet Archive
edmundwilsonrevi00cast
ISBN 10
0805716424
LCCN
97031613
OCLC/WorldCat
37606172
Library Thing
8218907
Goodreads
4462548

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