The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800,Used
The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800,Used
The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800,Used

The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800,Used

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In this new edition of his landmark book, John Gross traces the shifting fortunes of the men who shaped literary opinion in England during the Victorian, Edwardian, and contemporary eras. He brings together famous or forgotten critics and editorsprophets, aesthetes, statesmen, dons, radicals, social climbers, idealists, gossipmongers, and literary lionsand explores not only their critical ideas but also their personalities, careers, social backgrounds, and politics. He looks at "the higher journalism;" the expansion of the reading public, the byways of British liberalism, and the rise of literature as an academic subject, and the impact of modernism. In all a remarkable survey, to which Mr. Gross has now added updates on several literary careers, the new style of critics who have evolved from the universities, and the dominant role of the media. "A brilliant account of English literary culture which is as engaging as it is illuminating"Lionel Trilling. "Extremely readable.... The book is strewn with marvelous bits: deft aperus, biographical portraits of great subtlety and force, wit, commonsensical intelligence everywhere. It is a book that no one who cares about the state of literature can afford to neglect."Joseph Epstein.

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