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The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington
When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning...
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When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams.In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged fr
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Man and His World; 2. The New Wilderness; 3. Women of the Twenties; 4. The Crumbling Moral Order; 5. Two Ailing Democracies; 6. Back to the Native Ground; 7. The World of Hecate County; 8. Our National Wound; 9. The Decadence of the Democratic State; 10. The Democratic Man of Letters; 11. Upstate; Epilogue; Chronology; The Books of Edmund Wilson: A Checklist; Bibliographical Essay; Index
