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Warner Berthoff
This work, which includes discussions of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on the provenance and central character of writing by mainstream figures in America’s literary past.
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Edmund Wilson - American Writers 67 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
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This reappraisal of Hart Crane’s poetry takes into account the substantial body of commentary on his work, but the author’s primary intent is to look afresh at the poems themselves…
Virtue, as used here, connotes integrity–that living force that issues from persons, societies, or texts in consequence of their accomplishing their distinctive ends. Professor Berthoff outlines the descent of the…
This book traces the central developments in American literature between and 1919. It opens with an account of the consolidation of realism as the dominant standard of critical value and…
Warner B. Berthoff
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
