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...Louis J. Budd Mark Twain: An American Prophet . By Geismar Maxwell . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1970 . Pp. 564 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly intimate account of Pound s career largely exclusive of personal...

...Oscar Cargill The Examined Self . By Sayre Robert F. . Princeton : The Princeton University Press , 1964 . Pp. 212 . $4.75 . Henry James and the Jacobites . By Geismar Maxwell . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1963 . Pp. 463 . $7.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke...

... between the lines one still regrets the absence of these unifying themes. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES JOHN ESPEY Mark Twain: An American Prophet. By Maxwell Geismar. Bos­ ton: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Pp. 564. $10.00. The gut question is how excited we should get over Mark Twain...

.... Sayre is ardent and his book is provocative good reading. Mr. Geismar s Henry James and the Jacobites aimed, I surmise, at being a succes de scandale but is merely a fearful bore. It assumes that James s total experience of life was that of a voyeur, which ap­ parently to Mr. Geismar is a greater sin...

... Recollections of Joan of Arc the only work Geismar denigrates but Following the Equator. With it Twain began a coda of radical social criticism and became the acknowl­ edged conscience of his nation. Put sympathetically, Geismar s aim is to highlight Twain s finest passages while cutting away the crusted...

... not urge that he has forever disposed of Adams, Stevens, Eliot, and Ransom. One should go on reading them, though with heightened discernment, and one should go on reading Winters. Robert A. Hume. TWO BOOKS ON AMERICAN LITERATURE Writers in Crisis: The American Novel between Two Wars. By Maxwell Geismar...

... The Examined Self. By Robert F. Sayre. Princeton: The Princeton University Press, 1964. Pp. 212. $4.75. Henry James and the Jacobites. By Maxwell Geismar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. Pp. 463. $7.00. It is forgivable to love a man of genius too much, but to be totally oblivious to genius and have...

... tends to discount the value of his perceptions. The Battle and the Books is divided into two parts which have little to do with each other. In the first, Stone surveys critical attitudes toward Henry James as a way of setting the astringent views of Maxwell Geismar in perspective; the burden...

... attitudes toward Henry James as a way of setting the astringent views of Maxwell Geismar in perspective; the burden of these sixty pages is that James is relevant, or at least useful, to a world in crisis. The second part con­ siders Some Aspects of Henry James, among them Watch and Ward, literary...

..., and to it we may go for what the new generation was thinking. Besides being repre­ sentative, Styron has been well received. Alfred Kazin excepted him from a disparaging attack on contemporary writers.1 Maxwell Geismar described Lie Down in Darkness as the best novel of 1951.2 Granville Hicks gave Set...

... to get rid of it. Hun­ gry Gulliver, the English critical appraisal issued in 1948, is British novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson s summary of the myth in a twoword title and less than two-hundred pages of discussion. Even those most weary of the legend, Maxwell Geismar, who wrote the Introduction...

..., which relegated women to a subaltern position. Then, on 20 October 1970, during the Geismar trial, the women chained themselves together in front of the Petite Roquette (the Parisian prison for women) to show their solidarity with the prisoners.18 These spectacular actions were soon followed...

... as Alfred Kazin, Howard Mumford Jones, John Aldridge, and Maxwell Geismar. It s impossible to imagine that Set This House on Fire isn t going to extend his repu­ tation. There are a number of sources of the power of Set This House on Fire. The conventional requirements of conventionally successful fiction...

... a purveyor of obscenities about the South as a cheap sensationalist, or as a sheltered little southern lady whose cause is the Negro. Strange Fruit was put down for a thesis novel instead of appreciated as the lyrical creation it was. In a letter of January, 1961, to Maxwell Geismar, she said...

...., Maxwell Geismar, A Cycle of Fiction, in Literary History of the United States, ed. Spiller et al. (New York, 1952), pp. 1304-6, or in his recent American Moderns (New York, 1958), pp. 64-90. See the same view, however sympathetically offered, in John Aldridge, After the Lost Generation (New York, 1951...

... of the twentieth century as in the last half of the nineteenth. Justin Kaplan, in his popular biography, Mr. Clem­ ens and Mark Twain, shows us how fashionably similar Clemens s eccentricities were to our own. Maxwell Geismar repeatedly reminds us in Mark Twain, American Prophet and Mark Twain and the Three R s...