John Dos Passos

by Maine,Barry; Maine,Barry

• ISBN13: 9780415159357
• ISBN10: 0415159350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

John Dos Passos (1896-1970). Important American writer of the 1930s and 40s. Writings include Manhattan Transfer, Three Soldiers, USA. Volume covers the period 1921-1975. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(31)
Three Soldiers (September 1921)
review, Vanity Fair, October 1921	32	(1)
John Peale Bishop
`Insulting the Army', New York Times Book Review, October 1921	33	(4)
Coningsby Dawson
`Human Nature under Fire', New York Evening Post Book Review, October 1921	37	(6)
Henry Seidel Canby
`Doughboys', New Republic, October 1921	43	(4)
Francis Hackett
`John Dos Passos Lies!', Foreign Service, November 1921	47	(4)
Norman Shannon Hall
review, Smart Set, December 1921	51	(2)
H. L. Mencken
Unsigned review, `Blow at Americanism', Chicago Tribune, March 1922	53	(6)
One Man's Initiation--1917 (London, October 1920; New York, June 1922)
`Dos Passos in Perspective', New York Times Book Review, June 1922	59	(2)
Lloyd R. Morris
Unsigned review, New York Evening Post Literary Review, July 1922	61	(1)
Unsigned review, Bookman (New York), August 1922	62	(1)
review, New York Herald Tribune Books, August 1922	63	(1)
Constance Black
Manhattan Transfer (November 1925)
review, New York Times Book Review, November 1925	64	(3)
Henry Longan Stuart
`Manhattan at Last!', Saturday Review, December 1925	67	(5)
Sinclair Lewis
review, New Masses, August 1926	72	(2)
Michael Gold
review, Calender of Modern Letters, April 1927	74	(3)
D. H. Lawrence
`Modern Currents', from The Demon of the Absolute, 1928	77	(2)
Paul Elmer More
The 42nd Parallel (February 1930)
review, New York Herald Tribune Books, February 1930	79	(3)
Mary Ross
review, Chicago Tribune, March 1930	82	(2)
Fanny Butcher
review, New Republic, March 1930	84	(3)
Edmund Wilson
review, New Masses, April 1930	87	(4)
Upton Sinclair
Unsigned review, Bookman (New York), April 1930	91	(1)
`The Age of Speed?', Spectator, September 1930	92	(2)
V. S. Pritchett
`Dos Passos's Gifts', New Republic, June 1931	94	(5)
Granville Hicks
1919 (March 1932)
review, New York Herald Tribune Books, March 1932	99	(3)
Mary Ross
`News Novel', New York Times Book Review, March 1932	102	(4)
John Chamberlain
`A Marxist Epic', Saturday Review, March 1932	106	(3)
Matthew Josephson
`Film or Book?' Daily Mail, June 1932	109	(1)
Compton Mackenzie
review, Spectator, June 1932	110	(2)
L.A.G. Strong
`Russia to John Dos Passos', International Literature, October 1932	112	(3)
K. Selvinsky
P. Pavlenko
`The Education of John Dos Passos', The English Journal, February 1933	115	(2)
Michael Gold
review, Bookman (London), December 1933	117	(4)
Clifford Bower-Shore
The Big Money (August 1936)
`John Dos Passos: Anatomist of Our Time', Saturday Review, August 1936	121	(9)
Bernard de Voto
`Dos Passos Completes His Modern Trilogy', New York Herald Tribune Books, August 1936	130	(5)
Horace Gregory
`The End of a Trilogy', New Republic, August 1936	135	(4)
Malcolm Cowley
review, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 1936	139	(4)
Alvah C. Bessie
Unsigned review, Times Literary Supplement, October 1936	143	(2)
review, Spectator, November 1936	145	(2)
Goronwy Rees
`Dos Passos and the U.S.A.', Nation, February 1938	147	(5)
T.K. Whipple
`The Keynote to Dos Passos' Works', Daily Worker, February 1938	152	(2)
Michael Gold
`The America of John Dos Passos', Partisan Review, April 1938	154	(7)
Lionel Trilling
`The Moods and Tenses of John Dos Passos', New Masses, April 1938	161	(6)
Granville Hicks
`John Dos Passos and 1919', August 1938	167	(8)
Jean-Paul Sartre
`John Dos Passos and the Whole Truth', Southern Review, October 1938	175	(16)
Delmore Schwartz
Adventures of a Young Man (June 1939)
review, Saturday Review, June 1939	191	(11)
John Chamberlain
`American History in the Life of One Man', New York Herald Tribune Books, June 1939	202	(3)
Alfred Kazin
`Disillusionment', New Republic, June 1939	205	(3)
Malcolm Cowley
review, New Statesman, June 1939	208	(1)
John Mair
`Misadventures of John Dos Passos', New Masses, July 1939	209	(4)
Samuel Sillen
letter to Dos Passos, July 1939	213	(3)
Edmund Wilson
`Dos Passos and his Critics', American Mercury, August 1939	216	(6)
James T. Farrell
`Careers at Crossroads', Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1939	222	(1)
Wilbur Schramm
`Dos Passos and the Lost Generation', from On Native Grounds, 1942	223	(13)
Alfred Kazin
Number One (March 1943)
review, New York Herald Tribune Books March 1943	236	(2)
Stephen Vincent Benet
`Where Now Voyager?', New Republic, March 1943	238	(4)
Alfred Kazin
The Grand Design (January 1949)
letter to Dos Passos, January 1949	242	(1)
Edmund Wilson
`Dos Passos and his Critics', American Mercury, May 1949	243	(9)
Granville Hicks
Chosen Country (October 1951)
letter to Dos Passos, November 1951	252	(1)
Edmund Wilson
review, New York Times Book Review, December 1951	253	(3)
Arthur Mizener
`Welding the Past and the Present', Saturday Review, December 1951	256	(3)
Harrison Smith
Midcentury (January 1961)
`Labor Abuses', Chicago Sunday Tribune Review of Books, February 1961	259	(2)
Fanny Butcher
review, San Francisco Chronicle, February 1961	261	(2)
R. A. Fraser
review, New York Times Book Review, February 1961	263	(4)
Harry T. Moore
`U.S.A. Today: A Dos Passos Montage', New York Herald Tribune Books, February 1961	267	(1)
Milton Rugoff
review, Esquire, May 1961	268	(5)
Gore Vidal
review, The Progressive, September 1961	273	(2)
Melvin J. Friedman
review, New Statesman, October 1961	275	(1)
John Gross
Century's Ebb (August 1975)
review, New York Times Book Review, November 1975	276	(2)
Malcolm Cowley
review, New Republic, November 1975	278	(5)
Townsend Ludington
Select Bibliography	283	(3)
Index	286