Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes

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Thomas Mann’s Artist-Heroes Also by Jeffrey Meyers The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis Hemingway Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle D. H. Lawrence Joseph Conrad Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy Scott Fitzgerald Edmund Wilson Robert Frost Wintry Conscience: A Biography of George Orwell Somerset Maugham Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt THOMAS MANN’S ARTIST-HEROES JEFFREY MEYERS northwestern university press evanston, illinois Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2014 by Jeffrey Meyers. Published 2014 by Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meyers, Jeffrey, author. Thomas Mann’s artist-heroes / Jeffrey Meyers. pages cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8101-2953-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Mann, Thomas, 1875–1955—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Artists in literature. I. Title. PT2625.A44Z4696 2014 833.912—dc23 2013032445 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For Valerie ...