Axel's Castle
Subtitle: A Story of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (Modern Library)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: October 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780679602330
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History and criticism; 19th Century Literature - History And Criticism; 20th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Symbolism (Literary movement); European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 19th century; Literature, Modern
Description: Edmund Wilson's landmark work - the book that helped to establish his reputation as one of this century's foremost literary critics - traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on six modern writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.