Improvised Europeans The Expatriation of Adams, James, Pound and Eliot |
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| Author:
| Zwerdling, Alex |
| ISBN: | 978-0-465-03275-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 1998 |
| Publisher: | Basic Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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A provocative work of cultural history that reevaluates the lives and work of four of America’s most discussed writers: Henry Adams, Henry James, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. Why at the dawn of the American century did these distinguished writers choose to go "back” to what was still called the Old World to become (in Henry Adams’ phrase) "improvised Europeans”?
A provocative work of cultural history that reevaluates the lives and work of four of America’s most discussed writers: Henry Adams, Henry James, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. Why at the dawn of the American century did these distinguished writers choose to go "back” to what was still called the Old World to become (in Henry Adams’ phrase) "improvised Europeans”?