Classics and Commercials

Classics and Commercials PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Get Book Here

Book Description
Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties showcases Edmund Wilson's critical writings spanning decades and continents. Many of these essays first appeared in the New Yorker. Here is Wilson on Jane Austen, Thackeray, Edith Wharton, Tolstoy, Swift (the classics) as well as brilliant observations on Poe, H.P Lovecraft, detective stories, and other commercial literature. This wide-ranging study from one of the most influential man of letters demonstrates Wilson's supreme skills as both literary and cultural critic.