Alfred Kazin's America
by Kazin, AlfredEdition: Reprint
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Summary
Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates -- including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. This son of Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the astute, outspoken leftist -- or, as he put it, "the bitter patriotism of loving what one knows." Editor Ted Solotaroff hasselected material from Kazin's three classic memoirs to accompany his critical writings. Alfred Kazin's America provides an ongoing example of the spiritual freedom, individualism, and democratic contentiousness that he regarded as his heritage and endeavored to pass on.
Author Biography
Alfred Kazin was Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Home is Where One Starts From | |
| The Kitchen | p. 3 |
| "Beyond!" | p. 8 |
| Mrs. Solovey | p. 14 |
| Yeshua | p. 25 |
| The Literary Life | |
| Brownsville: 1931 | p. 31 |
| The New Republic: 1934 | p. 36 |
| At V. F. Calverton's: 1936 | p. 40 |
| The Age of Realism | |
| Preface to On Native Grounds | p. 51 |
| The Opening Struggle for Realism | p. 56 |
| Two Educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | p. 65 |
| An Insurgent Scholar: Thorstein Veblen | p. 81 |
| The New Realism: Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis | p. 90 |
| Willa Cather's Elegy | p. 105 |
| All the Lost Generations: F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos | p. 114 |
| The Literary Life | |
| Provincetown, 1940: Bertram Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Philip Rahv | p. 159 |
| Delmore Schwartz | p. 166 |
| Saul Bellow and Lionel Trilling | p. 170 |
| Contemporaries | |
| The Fascination and Terror of Ezra Pound | p. 181 |
| William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury | p. 200 |
| Southern Isolates: Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy | p. 213 |
| Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: The Historian at the Center | p. 222 |
| President Kennedy and Other Intellectuals | p. 229 |
| Professional Observers: Cheever, Salinger, and Updike | p. 245 |
| The Earthly City of the Jews: Bellow, Malamud, and Roth | p. 255 |
| The Imagination of Fact: Capote and Mailer | p. 270 |
| The "Single Voice" of Ralph Ellison | p. 282 |
| Two Cassandras: Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates | p. 289 |
| James Wright: The Gift of Feeling | p. 300 |
| Departed Friends | |
| The Intoxicating Sense of Possibility: Thomas Jefferson at Monticello | p. 307 |
| Emerson: The Priest Departs, The Divine Literatus Comes | p. 314 |
| Thoreau and American Power | p. 325 |
| Hawthorne: The Ghost Sense | p. 336 |
| "Melville Is Dwelling Somewhere in New York" | p. 344 |
| Walt Whitman: I Am the Man | p. 370 |
| Lincoln: The Almighty Has His Own Purposes | p. 383 |
| Emily Dickinson: Called Back | p. 402 |
| Creatures of Circumstance: Mark Twain | p. 407 |
| William and Henry James: Our Passion Is Our Task | p. 423 |
| The Death of the Past: Henry Adams and T. S. Eliot | p. 432 |
| The Literary Life | |
| Edmund Wilson at Wellfleet | p. 455 |
| Hannah Arendt: The Burden of Our Time | p. 467 |
| The Directness of Josephine Herbst | p. 477 |
| Saving My Soul at the Plaza | p. 481 |
| Summing Up | |
| A Parade in the Rain | p. 499 |
| To Be a Critic | p. 506 |
| Appendix | p. 523 |
| Index | p. 527 |
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