Stephen Vincent Benét
Subtitle: essays on his life and work
By: edited by David Garrett Izzo and Lincoln Konkle.
Contributors: Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.; Izzo, David Garrett.; Konkle, Lincoln.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This book is a collection of essays celebrating Benet and his writing. The first group of essays addresses Benet’s life, times, and personal relationships. Thomas Carr Benet reminisces about his father in the first essay, and others consider Benet’s marriage to his wife Rosemary; Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder and Benet as friends, liberal humanists and public activists; and his friendships with Philip Barry, Jed Harris, and Thornton Wilder. The second group contains essays about Benet’s poetry, fiction, and drama. They discuss Benet’s role in the development of historical poetry in America, John Brown’s Body and the Civil War, Hawthorne, Benet and historical fiction, Benet’s Faustian America, the adaptation of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" to drama and then to film, Benet’s use of fantasy and science fiction, and Benet as a dramatist for stage, screen and radio." -- Publisher description.
Notes: "Stephen Vincent Benét bibliography": p. 235-240.
Includes bibliographical references and index.