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Synopsis
This collection of essays by the author of "Plausible Prejudices" and "Once More Around the Block" focuses on the writers to whom Joseph Epstein feels indebted. The range extends historically from Matthew Arnold to Tom Wolfe, and includes Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym and V.S.Naipaul.
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About the Author
Joseph Epstein has been the editor of the American Scholar since 1975. His own books of essays include The Middle of My Tether, Once More Around the Block, A Line Out for a Walk, Pertinent Players, and With My Trousers Rolled (all published by Norton). He was guest editor for Best American Essays (1993) and teaches at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
From Publishers Weekly
In 19 essays first published in Commentary , Encounter , the New Criterion and the Times Literary Supplement , Epstein "repays" writers to whom he feels indebted as a reader, reassessing their work and placing it in the rich context of their lives. Learned, lucid and fluent the author certainly is, offering carefully considered opinions on Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Chekhov and E. B. White. But his engaging voice and mellifluous prose do not conceal or compensate for Epstein's often mean-spirited, reactionary stance. His potshots at leftists, women and gays detract from the authority of some judgments (Marxist critics "festoon their cliches" on Dreiser's novels; Dorothy Parker is but a "hard little number"; E. M. Forster's novels are rendered "obsolete" and "empty" by the "personal antipathies" of a "homosexual utopian"). His vastly negative re-examination of Forster, made in light of the novelist's homosexuality, is patronizing and unwarranted. The chief problem is not that Epstein grinds an ax, but that he doesn't acknowledge the foundations of his polemics, forging ahead with impassioned complacence.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0393026310
- ISBN 13 9780393026313
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages430
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