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Mendelson, Edward.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Mendelson, Edward.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Moral
agents
:
eight
twentieth-century
American
writers
/ Edward Mendelson.
by
Mendelson, Edward.
New York Review Books, c2015.
Call #:
810.9005 M537m
Subjects
American
literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Authors,
American
-- 20th century -- Biography.
Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781590177761 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Eight
twentieth-century
American
writers
Twentieth-century
American
writers
Description:
xviii, 203 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (page 203).
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Sage: Lionel Trilling -- Moralist: Dwight Macdonald -- Outsider: Alfred Kazin -- Magus: William Maxwell -- Patriarch: Saul Bellow -- Mythmaker: Norman Mailer -- Neighbor: W.H. Auden -- Celebrant: Frank O'Hara.
Summary:
"One of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of
eight
influential twentieth century
American
writers
: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, W.H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin, Norman Mailer and Frank O'Hara. Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson explores the responses of these
writers
, very public figures all, to major historical events -- among them the rise and fall of fascism, the cold war, the struggles for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, and the sexual revolution -- and shows how intensely personal concerns, relating to childhood, religion, status, sex, and money, largely shaped their views. Mendelson's vivid portraits cut to the quick, changing our perceptions of these brilliant, complicated, often deeply troubled men while offering readers a new understanding of their contributions to
American
intellectual and political life"--Provided by publisher.
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