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Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Dabney Edmund Wilson
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6462-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Centennial Reflections
E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6462-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920's through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums held at the Mercantile Library and at Princeton University in 1995, Wilson's centennial year. At these occasions, prominent critics, literary journalists, and historians aired a variety of points of view about his work and personality. Assembled and edited by Lewis Dabney, this book shows new intellectual voices interacting with veterans who knew Wilson and his times.
In the first part, Morris Dickstein, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, David Bromwich, Jed Perl, and Mark Krupnick comment on Wilson's development as a critic, his faith in reason and his personal romanticism, his version of modernism and eclectic interest in the arts, as well as the sources of his later writing about Judaism. In the second section, a reading of the journals from The Twenties to The Sixties by Neale Reinitz and a chapter from Dabney's biography-in-progress lead to the reminiscences of Elizabeth Hardwick, Jason Epstein, Mary Meigs, Roger Straus, and Alfred Kazin, as well as Michael C. D. Macdonald, the son of family friends, and the Dead Sea Scrolls scholar James Sanders giving an authentic sense of Wilson's place in the literary life. Two of his important works, the study of the Marxist intellectual tradition in To the Finland Station and of Civil War literature in Patriotic Gore, anchor the discussion in the third part. Here David Remnick and Daniel Aaron debate his radical commitment, joined by Arthur Schlesinger and others in a vigorous exchange, and Randall Kennedy's attack on Wilson's neglect of nineteenth-century black writers provokes a response from Toni Morrison. Instructive essays by Andrew Delbanco and Louis Menand, and discerning comments by Paul Berman and Sean Wilentz round out the volume.
Originally published in 1997.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Contributors
Introduction 3
Edmund Wilson: Three Phases 15
The Religion of the Enlightenment 27
Wilson's Romanticism 35
Wilson's Modernism 39
The Writer's Eye 53
Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism 70
A Reading of the Journals 91
The Perspective of Biography: 1929, A Turning Point 109
Remembering Edmund Wilson 135
The Admirable Minotaur of Money Hill 154
Revisiting the Critic on the Scrolls 169
Wilson's Lenin 177
The Independent Radical Observer 186
Wilson and Soviet Russia 195
Patriotic Gore and the Introduction 208
Omissions in Patriotic Gore 221
A Great Man's Limitations 233
Wilson Divided 240
Edmund Wilson in His Times 253
Wilson and Our Non-Wilsonian Age 266
Afterword 276
Index 285
