Edmund Wilson : centennial reflections

Lewis M. Dabney, editor

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.

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  • Contributors Edmund Wilson: Three Phases The Religion of the Enlightenment Wilson's Romanticism Wilson's Modernism The Writer's Eye Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism A Reading of the Journals The Perspective of Biography: 1929, A Turning Point Remembering Edmund Wilson The Admirable Minotaur of Money Hill Revisiting the Critic on the Scrolls Wilson's Lenin The Independent Radical Observer Wilson and Soviet Russia Patriotic Gore and the Introduction Omissions in Patriotic Gore A Great Man's Limitations Wilson Divided Edmund Wilson in His Times Wilson and Our Non-Wilsonian Age Afterword Index

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書名 Edmund Wilson : centennial reflections
著作者等 Dabney Lewis M.
出版元 Princeton University Press
刊行年月 1997
ページ数 xi, 293 p.
大きさ 20 cm
ISBN 0691016712
0691016720
NCID BA33641740
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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