Bibliograph

Edmund Wilson, a life in literature, Lewis M. Dabney

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Label

Edmund Wilson, a life in literature, Lewis M. Dabney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Edmund Wilson

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60360384

Responsibility statement

Lewis M. Dabney

Sub title

a life in literature

Summary

From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write classics of literary and intellectual history, reportage, and criticism that have outlasted many of their subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships--in openly erotic fiction and journals, but Dabney is the first biographer to integrate the life and work. Dabney traces the critic's intellectual development, from small-town New Jersey gentry to America's last great renaissance man, a commentator on everything from the Russian classics to Native American rituals to the Dead Sea Scrolls, and shows why Wilson has remained--in his cosmopolitanism and trenchant nonconformity--a model for young writers and intellectuals.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Edmund Wilson, Jr. -- The twenties -- On the left -- "E. W. and M. McC." -- A second flowering -- "My books live, I am ceasing to live."

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