In this Book
- To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University Press of New England
summary
The Cape as evoked and experienced by a legendary literary couple
Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) and Mary McCarthy (1912–1989), famed authors, literary critics, libertines, and leftists, were married for seven years and had one child together, Reuel K. Wilson. While bringing forward new biographical revelations, as well as texts that have never been published before, Reuel K. Wilson chronicles his parents’ lives on Cape Cod, together and apart, while examining their relationships with the landscape around them, both human and physical. The book combines biography, cultural history, and literary analysis in an effort to, as the author writes, “impart a sense of the two protagonists’ flesh, blood, nerves, and determination to make an artistic synthesis from observation and experience. If they recreate the place, my role has been to recreate them in it.”
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xiii
- Abbreviations
- p. xv
- 1 | The Background
- pp. 1-16
- 4 | Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod Poetry
- pp. 96-114
- 6 | Remembering My Parents and Cape Cod
- pp. 139-170
- Conclusion
- pp. 171-173
- Bibliography
- pp. 185-187
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584658092
Related ISBN(s)
9781584657132
MARC Record
OCLC
667077196
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-31
Language
English
Open Access
No