Dislocations
Stephen Fender, 19 January 1989
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The world turned upside down
by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Cambridge, 384 pp., £35, March 1988,0 521 34647 9 Show More
by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Cambridge, 384 pp., £35, March 1988,
Mark Twain’s Letters. Vol. I: 1853-1866
edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson.
California, 616 pp., $35, May 1988,0 520 03668 9 Show More
edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson.
California, 616 pp., $35, May 1988,
A Writer’s America: Landscape in Literature
by Alfred Kazin.
Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £15.95, September 1988,0 500 01424 8 Show More
by Alfred Kazin.
Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £15.95, September 1988,
“... economic and social, as well as physical, hazards. For most of the writers represented in Lawson-Peebles’s study, too, the confrontation posed problems of style. Only in Kazin’s wide survey are American writers at ease in their surroundings. A common response to the unexpected is a retreat to a hardened form of the familiar. Faced with landscapes ... ”
