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Edmund Wilson's America /
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 e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1983]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813159232 |