Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA
Subtitle: from prophecy to protest
By: Bérengère Deprez.
Series: Yourcenar -- no. 2; Yourcenar -- no. 2.
Publisher: P.I.E. Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bruxelles [Belgium]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789052015637
Subjects: Yourcenar, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An American paradox; title: Hadrian and the Atlantic world; title: Zeno and the atom bomb; title: Nathanaël and Mount Desert Island; title: English as a "father tongue"; title: "Let us be subversive": Marguerite Yourcenar, protest writer; title: A photograph in Life magazine; title: A changing view of life: from fatalism to pessimism; title: An interview with Marguerite Yourcenar by T. D. Allman; title: A letter from Marguerite Yourcenar; title: Charities list of the Marguerite Yourcenar Trust.