{"product_id":"9781466810440","title":"Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (\u003ci\u003eAxel's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Finland Station\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePatriotic Gore\u003c\/i\u003e), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships with Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov, among others--in openly erotic fiction and journals, but Lewis Dabney is the first writer to integrate the life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDabney traces the critic's intellectual development, from son of small-town New Jersey gentry to America's last great renaissance man, a deep commentator on everything from the Russian classics to Native American rituals to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Along the way, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained--in his cosmopolitanism and trenchant nonconformity--a model for young writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite critic of the general reader. \u003ci\u003eEdmund Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e will be recognized as the lasting biography of this brilliant man whose life reflected so much of the cultural, social, and human experience of a turbulent century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158072738032,"sku":"9781466810440","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466810440_p0.jpg?v=1769890875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466810440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}