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Edmund Wilson Revisited (United States Authors Series)

David Castronovo

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Description:From the jazz age to the Nixon years, Edmund Wilson was an intrepid critic, historian, journalist & creative writer who communicated in the voice of the public intellectual with a general audience & with international peers including Isaiah Berlin & Vladimir Nabokov. This new, revised edition of a 1985 NY Times Notable Book is about Wilson's passions: his commitment to the writer's craft, his contempt for power politics, his appetite for ancient & modern languages & literatures, & his many loves & 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 & writings on the Civil War, the Dead Sea Scrolls & the panorama of his long life in literature, Edmund Wilson Revisited analyzes the books & opinions that have made Wilson a landmark figure. Chapters devoted to literary ideas, reporting, revolutionary politics & 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 & Engels, & the work of famous friends such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, F. Scott Fitzgerald & many other writers whom he brought into focus & championed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Edmund Wilson Revisited (United States Authors Series). To get started finding Edmund Wilson Revisited (United States Authors Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the jazz age to the Nixon years, Edmund Wilson was an intrepid critic, historian, journalist & creative writer who communicated in the voice of the public intellectual with a general audience & with international peers including Isaiah Berlin & Vladimir Nabokov. This new, revised edition of a 1985 NY Times Notable Book is about Wilson's passions: his commitment to the writer's craft, his contempt for power politics, his appetite for ancient & modern languages & literatures, & his many loves & 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 & writings on the Civil War, the Dead Sea Scrolls & the panorama of his long life in literature, Edmund Wilson Revisited analyzes the books & opinions that have made Wilson a landmark figure. Chapters devoted to literary ideas, reporting, revolutionary politics & 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 & Engels, & the work of famous friends such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, F. Scott Fitzgerald & many other writers whom he brought into focus & championed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Edmund Wilson Revisited (United States Authors Series). To get started finding Edmund Wilson Revisited (United States Authors Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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