Sanford V. Sternlicht - C.S. Forester and the Hornblower Saga
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Original edition published as C. S. Forester in 1981 by G. K. Hall & Co.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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Sternlicht, Sanford V. C.S. Forester and the Hornblower saga / by Sanford Sternlicht. Rev. ed. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: C.S. Forester. c1981. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8156-0621-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 18991966Criticism and interpretation. 2. Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 18991966 CharactersHoratio Hornblower. 3. Napoleonic Wars, 18001815 Literature and the wars. 4. Historical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism. 5. Sea stories, EnglishHistory and criticism. 6. War stories, EnglishHistory and criticism. 7. Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character. I. Sternlicht, Sanford V. C.S. Forester. II. Title. PR6011.056Z89 1999 823'.912dc21 99-36792
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To David and Daniel
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Sanford Sternlicht teaches English at Syracuse University and is a poet, critic, and theater director. His works of criticism include John Webster's Imagery and the Webster Canon (1972), John Masefield (1977), Padraic Colum (1985), John Galsworthy (1987), R. F. Delderfield (1988), Stevie Smith (1990), and All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom (Syracuse University Press). He has edited Selected Short Stories of Padraic Colum (1985), Selected Plays of Padraic Colum (1986), Selected Poems of Padraic Colum (1989), and In Search of Stevie Smith (1991), all published by Syracuse University Press. Commander Sanford Sternlicht, USNR (Ret.), sailed the same seas as Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN.
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Contents
Preface
9
Acknowledgments
12
Chronology
13
1. The Storyteller
15
2. Apprenticeship and Early Writing: 19241931
41
3. The Historical Novelist Develops: 19321936
73
4. Hornblower: The Man Alone
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5. The War Storm: 19371946
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6. Postwar Allegory and Philosophy: 19471954
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7. Last Works: 19551966
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8. Achievement and Summation
159
Notes and References
165
Selected Bibliography
172
Index
175
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Preface
C. S. Forester was a giant of popular culture. This lean, bespectacled, bookish man, a semiinvalid for the last twenty-three years of his life, created a superhero of twentieth-century fiction, the indomitable Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain, Commodore, Lord, Admiral Horatio Hornblower, Royal Navy. Not until Ian Fleming's James Bond crashed into the literary collective consciousness of the Anglo-American reading public in the 1950s was Hornblower's primacy in escapist fiction challenged and finally superceded. The fact that a contemporary British undercover agent replaced an early nineteenthy-century British naval officer as the nonpareil fantasy hero of the general reading public indicates the shift in values of the third quarter of the twentieth century. Hornblower was a hero for the World War II generation and Bond is a hero for the Cold War generation. Forester and Fleming, respectively, captured the hidden self-images of their times.
All of the Hornblower Saga and several other Forester novels remain in print at the time of the writing of this book. Thousands of readers discover Forester's art through the paperback editions of the Hornblower hooks each year and then proceed to read the entire Saga and other novels of his, including his finest work:
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