lewis-M.-dabney

Book Review: Edmund Wilson — A Paleface of a Redskin, Part 1

October 20, 2007
Posted in ,

Back in the ’30s, Philip Rahv memorably divided American fiction writers into redskins and palefaces — Mark Twain epitomized the wild men, Henry James the civilized — a chasm that today may be outmoded or politically indelicate. But Lewis M. Dabney’s fine biography of Edmund Wilson suggests that when it comes to assessing literary critics…

Read More

Recent Posts