The Literary Career of W. B. Trites

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-68053-727-7
Verlag: Academica Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 334 g

This book discusses the eight novels by American expatriate author W. B. Trites, who, although highly praised by such contemporaries H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Maxwell, Max Beerbohm, L. P. Hartley, and Frank Harris, among others, remains curiously unknown today. His spare style, which pre-dated Hemingway's by several decades, did not impress publishers accustomed to more expansive prose. Worse still, his prospects suffered from the forbidden social he dared to explore in a less open era, when publishers shied away from controversial topics. Richard Rex's masterful discussion of Trites's remarkable novels includes contemporary reviews, comments on the author's themes, his negotiations with publishers, and biographical details heretofore unknown.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Rex retired from the University of Utah. He is the author of a collection of Chaucer essays titled The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Alice Muriel Williamson: The Secret History of American-English Author. He with his wife, Ines, on the Olympic Peninsula in Port Angeles, Washington.