Shores of Light
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Shores of Light

A Literary Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s

  1. 952 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Shores of Light

A Literary Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s

About this book

A literary chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties from the brilliant mind of Edmund Wilson
Shores of Light covers a vast range of authors including Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Eugene O'Neill, e. e. cummings, Woodrow Wilson, H.L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Andre Malraux, Henry Miller, W.H. Auden, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

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Information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781466899568
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Foreword
  5. Prologue, 1952: Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature
  6. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. Mr. E. A. Robinson’s Moonlight
  8. Two Novels of Willa Cather
  9. Ezra Pound’s Patchwork
  10. Wallace Stevens and E. E. Cummings
  11. Byron in the Twenties
  12. Late Violets from the Nineties
  13. Greenwich Village in the Early Twenties
  14. Sherwood Anderson’s Many Marriages
  15. Ring Lardner’s American Characters
  16. Eugene O’Neill and the Naturalists
  17. The New American Comedy
  18. A Vortex in the Nineties: Stephen Crane
  19. Emergence of Ernest Hemingway
  20. Imaginary Dialogues
  21. Gilbert Seldes and the Popular Arts
  22. Houdini
  23. Poe at Home and Abroad
  24. The Tennessee Poets
  25. The Muses Out of Work
  26. Upton Sinclair’s Mammonart
  27. The Pilgrimage of Henry James
  28. The All-Star Literary Vaudeville
  29. The Critics: A Conversation
  30. Pope and Tennyson
  31. A Letter to Elinor Wylie
  32. Firbank and Beckford
  33. A Preface to Persius
  34. Burlesque Shows
  35. E. E. Cummings’s Him
  36. A Great Magician
  37. Mencken’s Democratic Man
  38. Woodrow Wilson at Princeton
  39. American Heroes: Frémont and Frick
  40. The Sportsman’s Tragedy
  41. A Poet of the Pacific
  42. Art Young
  43. Greenwich Village at the End of the Twenties
  44. The Critic Who Does Not Exist
  45. A Weekend at Ellerslie
  46. Thornton Wilder
  47. The Death of Elinor Wylie
  48. Burton Rascoe
  49. Signs of Life: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  50. Dostoevsky Abroad
  51. Citizen of the Union
  52. Virginia Woolf and the American Language
  53. Dos Passos and the Social Revolution
  54. T. S. Eliot and the Church of England
  55. Dahlberg, Dos Passos and Wilder
  56. Notes on Babbitt and More
  57. Sophocles, Babbitt and Freud
  58. “H. C.”
  59. The Nietzschean Line
  60. The Literary Consequences of the Crash
  61. The Economic Interpretation of Wilder
  62. Schnitzler and Philip Barry
  63. Joseph de Maistre
  64. An Appeal to Progressives
  65. The Literary Class War
  66. C. L. Dodgson: The Poet-Logician
  67. Lytton Strachey
  68. The Satire of Samuel Butler
  69. André Malraux
  70. Gertrude Stein Old and Young
  71. Mr. Wilder in the Middle West
  72. The Literary Worker’s Polonius
  73. The Classics on the Soviet Stage
  74. Letter to the Russians about Hemingway
  75. Talking United States
  76. American Critics, Left and Right
  77. It’s Terrible! It’s Ghastly! It Stinks!
  78. The Oxford Boys Becalmed
  79. Prize-Winning Blank Verse
  80. “Give That Beat Again”
  81. Dream Poetry
  82. “Cousin Swift, You Will Never Be a Poet”
  83. Peggy Bacon: Poet with Pictures
  84. Twilight of the Expatriates
  85. The Pleasures of Literature
  86. Cold Water on Bakunin
  87. Shut Up That Russian Novel
  88. Marxism at the End of the Thirties
  89. Epilogue, 1952: Edna St. Vincent Millay
  90. About the Author
  91. Index
  92. Newsletter Sign-up
  93. Contents
  94. Copyright