...William E. Leverette, Jr.; David E. Shi Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Agrarianism for Commuters William E. Leverette, Jr., and David E. Shi In American history, the period between World War I and the Great Depression was marked by materialism, urbanism, and extraordinary...

... layers of time. Belonging as he does to a generation schooled in Lubbock and Forster and Joseph Conrad, Styron is equally deft in his handling of point of view. His narrator My name is Peter Leverett. I am white, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon, Virginia-bred, just past thirty, in good health, tolerable enough...

..., sharing, as he does, the Illinois banner with Senator Everett Dirksen. Nor does his voting record bear a striking resemblance to those of Senator Homer Capehart of Indi­ ana or Senator Frank Lausche of Ohio. Senators Styles Bridges, Norris Cotton, and Leverett Saltonstall have little in common...

... of existence. In both novels, the final discovery, the lifting of the veil, becomes anti-climactic. At the outset of Set This House on Fire, we are presented with Peter Leverett, a nondescript Nick Carroway, as first person narrator and apparently central character. Peter seeks, as the way to his own salvation...

... Leverett of Galena, Missouri, or Dudley Vance, a Tennessee fiddler who persuaded Benton that the commercialized Tin Pan Alley tunes and recorded hillbilly songs lacked authenticity.17 The artist not only relied on earlier sketches executed during his travels throughout the United States in the 1920s...