V. L. Parrington: Through the Avenue of Art Hardcover - 1994
by H. Lark Hall
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H. Lark Hall herein presents the first comprehensive biography of Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929). The recipient of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in history for the first two volumes of his Main Currents in American Thought (3 vols., 1927, 1930), Parrington remains one of the most influential literary and historical scholars of the early 20th century. Parrington was a man in search of a personal myth. He found his self-image successively mirrored in Victorian novels, painting, poetry, Populism, religion, the arts and crafts movement, American literature, and American history. These changes were also reflected in his teaching as a professor of English - at the College of Emporia, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Washington. Published late in his career, Main Currents represented the culmination of his search. Drawing upon previously inaccessible personal papers - including correspondence, diaries, Harvard student course work, Main Currents chapter drafts, and other unpublished writings - Hall traces Parrington's intellectual development from his midwestern childhood through his mid-life engagement with English poet and artist William Morris, then from the radical impact of "the new history" to the tempered postwar reflection of his late career at the University of Washington. Her reinterpretation of Main Currents emphasizes Parrington's concern with the drama of the life of the mind and links his historical viewpoint to his own personal history. Thirty-three photographs enhance the text.
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- Title V. L. Parrington: Through the Avenue of Art
- Author H. Lark Hall
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, F
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kent State University Press, Ashland, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Date February 1994
- ISBN 9780873384803 / 0873384806
- Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.56 x 1.13 in (24.03 x 16.66 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects College teachers - United States - Biography, English literature - History and criticism -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-9201
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.9
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