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title:Van Wyck Brooks : In Search of American Culture
author:Hoopes, James.
publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin:0870232126
print isbn13:9780870232121
ebook isbn13:9780585231631
language:English
subjectBrooks, Van Wyck,--1886-1963, Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
publication date:1977
lcc:PS3503.R7297Z7eb
ddc:818/.5/209
subject:Brooks, Van Wyck,--1886-1963, Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
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Van Wyck Brooks
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Van Wyck Brooks
In Search of American Culture
James Hoopes
Page iv Copyright 1977 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights - photo 3
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Copyright 1977 by
The University of Massachusetts Press
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-8754
ISBN 0-87023-2 12-6
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Mary Mendell
Cataloging in Publication data appears on the
last printed page of the book.
Page v
For my father, Edgar,
and my mother, Ruth
Page vii
Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
1
Plainfield, 1886-1904
1
2
Harvard, 1904-1907
27
3
The Limitations of Life
52
4
The Art of Society
81
5
Beginning Low
108
6
Failure
141
7
A Season in Hell
170
8
Tenoned and Mortised in Granite
194
9
Certain Root Ideas
220
10
Man of Letters
256
11
Dissolution
279
Note on Sources
307
Notes
309
Index
339

Page ix
Illustrations
Portrait of Van Wyck Brooks
33
Sarah Ames Brooks
34
Charles Edward Brooks
34
Van Wyck at the Plainfield Mardi gras
35
Eleanor Stimson
36
Charles Ames Brooks
36
Van Wyck in Carmel, 1911
36
Van Wyck, Eleanor, and Charles
37
Randolph Bourne
226
Mollie Colum
226
Sherwood Anderson
226
Waldo Frank
226
Maxwell Perkins
227
Lewis Mumford
227
Malcolm Cowley
227
Newton Arvin
227
The Westport house
228
Van Wyck Brooks
228
Van Wyck and Gladys Brooks
229
The Bridgewater house
230
The Weston house
230
Van Wyck Brooks
231
Brooks's study just after his death
232

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