Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s.
The Shores of Light (1952) is Wilson's magisterial assemblage of early reviews, sketches, stories, memoirs, and other writings into a teeming panorama of America's literary life in a period of exuberant expansion and in the years of political and economic strife that followed. Wilson traces the emergence of a new American writing as he reviews the work of Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, E.
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s gives us Wilson at the midpoint of his extraordinary career as critic and scholar, and includes in complete form three of his most significant books. The Triple Thinkers (1938, revised 1948) and The Wound and the Bow (1941) give us Wilson at the height of his powers, in a series of extended literary studies marked by his unique combination of.
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was America's most influential literary critic from the early 1920s through the 1950s. During those decades, his reviews and essays in such publications as Vanity Fair, the New Republic and especially the New Yorker introduced readers to many new writers. For example, Wilson encouraged his good friend and former fellow Princeton student F. Scott Fitzgerald and.
Edmund Wilson's literary essays and reviews, which stem from a popular critical journalism characterized by an emphasis on certain psychological and social aspects of the lives of writers, can be understood as constituting a sociology of literature. These essays and reviews are generally concerned with contexts of the social and literary milieus of authors, the mimetic features of written.
Dabney, an authority on the life and work of critic Edmund Wilson who edited our two volumes Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the s and 30s and Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the s and 40s. This interview had previously only been available as a downloadable PDF on loa. Wilson wrote important essays and reviews, reportage, memoirs, journals, and history as well as.
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s presents Wilson in the extraordinary first phase of his career, participating in a cultural renaissance and grappling with the crucial issues of his era. The Shores of Light (1952) is Wilson's magisterial assemblage of early reviews, sketches, stories, memoirs, and other writings into a teeming panorama of America's literary life in a period of.
Edmund Wilson and American culture. The books and essays of this phase have a special charge, given to them by Wilson’s notion of writing as an arena where there is the possibility of heroic.