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The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters
Contributor(s): Wilson, Edmund (Author)
ISBN: 0374526699     ISBN-13: 9780374526696
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 1999
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Annotation: Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions. The book takes its title from the scene of Lenin's arrival from Germany in April 1917, ready to take over the leadership of the Russian Revolution and in doing so bring to a climax the political and intellectual movements which are the subject of this study.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 810.9
LCCN: 72093789
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.05" W x 8.05" (0.62 lbs) 219 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

Edmund Wilson's last collection of criticism, The Devils & Canon Barham, contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters

Previously published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Wilson's writing featured in this volume sees the critic returning to his roots and youth, with essays on his childhood love for The Ingoldsby Legends, the works of Hemingway, Eliot's The Waste Land, and ends with a peice on The Monsters of Bomarzo and by taking the Modern Language Association (MLA) to task.

Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Edmund: -

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded.