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EDMUND O. WILSON (1895 - 1972)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Collected Works.  2 Vols.  Ed. Lewis M. Dabney.  New York: Library of America, 2007.

    • Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected Reviews.  Vol. 2.

    • Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews.  Vol. 1.

  • From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson.  Ed. Janet Groth and David Castronovo.  Athens: U of Ohio P, 1995.

  • Edmund Wilson: the Man in Letters.  Ed. Janet Groth and David Castronovo.  Athens: Ohio UP, 1992.

  • The Portable Edmund Wilson.  Ed. Lewis M. Dabney.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.  Rpt. as The Edmund Wilson Reader.  Ed. Lewis M. Dabney.  New York: DaCapo, 1997.

  • Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: the Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971.  Ed. Simon Karlinsky.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1979.  Rev. Ed. 2001.

  • Europe without Baedeker: Sketches among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, with Notes from a European Diary, 1963-64: Paris, Rome, Budapest.  London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967.

  • The Bit Between My Teeth: a Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

  • Apologies to the Iroquois.  New York: Vintage, 1960.

  • The American Earthquake: a Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties (A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal).  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.

  • A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.

  • Red, Black, Blond and Olive: Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuni; Hainti; Soviet Russia; Israel.  London: W. H. Allen, 1956.

  • The Scrolls from the Dead Sea.  Fontana, 1955.

  • The Shores of Light: a Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1952.

  • Classics and Commercials: a Literary Chronicle of the Forties.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1950.

  • The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature.  Cambridge: Riverside, 1941.

  • The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literature Subjects.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1938.  Rpt. as The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects.  1948.

• Edited Works:

  • The Shock of Recognition: the Development of Literature in the U.S. Recorded by the Men Who Made It.  New York: Modern Library, 1943.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962.  New York: Norton, 1994.

  • The Boys in the Back Room.  1941.

  • To the Finland Station: a Study in the Writing and Acting of History.  Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1940.

  • "The Historical Interpretation of Literature."  1940.

    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  573-580.

    • The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literature Subjects.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1938.  Rpt. as The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects.  1948.  257-.

  • "Marxism and Literature."  1938.

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  1243-1254.

    • The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literature Subjects.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1938.  Rpt. as The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects.  1948.  197-212.

  • Travels in Two Democracies.  1936.

  • Axel’s Castle: a Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.

On-Line:

• Archives:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Historical Interpretation of Literature (1940)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Berthoff, Warner.  Edmund Wilson.  Issue 67 of Pamphlets on American Writers Series.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009.

  • Castronovo, David, and Janet Groth.  Critic in Love: a Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson.  Counterpoint, 2007.

  • Dabney, Lewis M.  Edmund Wilson: a Life in Literature.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

  • Dabney, Lewis M.  Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.

On-Line:

• Baker, Carlos: Edmund Wilson

• Beha, Christopher: Learning from Professor Gauss Princeton Alumni Weekly February 13, 2008

• Benton, Steve: "Marxism and Literature" by Edmund Wilson ECU English Talk April 15, 2009

• Bottum, Joseph: America’s Greatest Reader Humanities 29.6 (2008)

• Castronovo, David: Edmund Wilson

• Dickstein, Morris: Edmund Wilson's Human Interest Times March 1, 2006

• Flower, Dean: Justice to Edmund Wilson The Hudson Review 59.3 (2006)

• Gyorgy, Andras: Edmund Wilson’s Literary Essays and Reviews from 1920 to 1950: Just in Time World Socialist Web Site November 30, 3007

• Kanfer, Stefan: Edmund Wilson 1895-1972 TIME June 26, 1972

• Leming, Warren: Edmund Wilson: a Life in Literature Logos: a Journal of Society and Culture 5.2 (2006)

• Menand, Louis: Missionary: Edmund Wilson and American Culture New Yorker August 8, 2005

• Scialabba, George: A Great Deal of Work The Nation January 28, 2008

• Spartacus: Edmund Wilson

• Toibin, Colm: 'Edmund Wilson' American Critic New York Times September 4, 2005

• Weiss, Michael: The Prometheus of American Criticism Democratiya (Spring 2008)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Edmund Wilson

• Wilson, Reuel K.: Edmund Wilson’s Cape Cod Landscape Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 2004)

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