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Tables of Contents for The Edmund Wilson Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the New Edition
ix
2
Introduction
xi
36
Chronology
xlvii
I Starting Point and Retrospect
1
122
Editor's Note
1
3
The Old Stone House
4
16
The Author at Sixty
20
25
Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature
45
21
Edna St. Vincent Millay
66
43
Thoughts on Being Bibliographed
109
14
II The Young Critic: The 1920s
123
56
Editor's Note
123
2
The Pilgrimage of Henry James
125
10
The Critic Who Does Not Exist
135
5
Dos Passos and the Social Revolution
140
6
T. S. Eliot and the Church of England
146
4
James Joyce's Ulysses
150
17
Axel and Rimbaud
167
12
III Capitalism and Communism
179
138
Editor's Note
179
4
The Follies as an Institution
183
2
The Lexicon of Prohibition
185
2
A Weekend at Ellerslie
187
8
Frank Keeney's Coal Diggers
195
8
Detroit Motors
203
17
The Jumping-Off Place
220
7
Soviet Russia: Scarlet Fever in Odessa
227
12
D. S. Mirsky
239
14
The Partnership of Marx and Engels
253
48
Trotsky and History
301
16
IV Literary Essays
317
120
Editor's Note
317
3
In Honor of Pushkin: Eugeni Onegin
320
18
The Historical Interpretation of Literature
338
16
Dickens and the Marshalsea Prison
354
42
Hemingway: Gauge of Morale
396
22
Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow
418
19
V Patriotic Gore
437
120
Editor's Note
437
3
Harriet Beecher Stowe
440
26
The Journal of Mary Chesnut
466
9
Southern Soldiers: Taylor, Jackson, Lee
475
13
The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
488
19
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
507
50
VI Credos and Characterizations
557
78
Editor's Note
557
5
Letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Tate, Louise Bogan, John Dos Passos, Thornton Wilder, Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur Mizener, and Elena Wilson
562
37
On Writers and Cultures: Jane Austen
578
1
T. S. Eliot: The Poet and the Public Figure
578
2
George Santayana
580
2
John Jay Chapman
582
1
Jules Michelet
583
1
Thomas Love Peacock
584
1
Shaw's Music
585
2
British Manners
587
1
Audubon and the American Scene
588
3
Russian Language and Culture
591
2
Literature and Politics
593
2
The Writer's Responsibility
595
1
Why Do People Read Detective Stories?
595
4
Zuni: Shalako
599
12
On First Reading Genesis
611
8
Jerusalem the Golden
619
16
VII Fiction
635
60
Editor's Note
635
2
The Men From Rumpelmayer's
637
9
Ellen Terhune
646
49
VIII Verse
695
12
Editor's Note
695
2
Bobdi Gardens
697
1
When All the Young Were Dying
698
1
The Voice
699
1
On Editing F. Scott Fitzgerald's Papers
700
2
The Mass in the Parking Lot
702
3
Something About the Author
705
2
IX From the Journals
707
40
Editor's Note
707
3
The Twenties
710
5
The Thirties
715
6
The Forties
721
5
The Fifties
726
7
The Sixties
733
14
Short Bibliography
747
2
Acknowledgements
749
2
About the Editor
751