Part 1: Home. Chapter one. Unearthing the Buried Life: Wolfe's Readers and the Culture Crisis -- Chapter two. Homesick for Unknown Places: Longing and the Imagined South -- Part 2: Abroad. Chapter three. "The Measureless Realm of Elfland": Wolfe, Germany, and Sehnsucht -- Chapter four. "The Geography of Heart's Desire": German Writers, Fascism, and the Translation of Thomas Wolfe -- Part 3: Endurance. Chapter five. Dances with Wolfes: The Postwar Legacy, Transpacific Impact, and Martian Resurrection of Thomas Wolfe -- Conclusion
Summary:
"Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1900-38) was one of the most influential southern writers, regularly considered a rival of his contemporary William Faulkner-who believed Wolfe to be one of the greatest talents of their generation. His novels-including Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Of Time and the River (1935), and the posthumously published The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940)-remain touchstones of U.S. literature. In Look Abroad, Angel, Jedidiah Evans uncovers the "global Wolfe," reconfiguring Wolfe's supposedly intractable homesickness for the American South as a form of longing that is instead indeterminate and expansive. Instead of promoting and reinforcing a narrow and cloistered formulation of the writer as merely southern or Appalachian, Evans places Wolfe in transnational contexts, examining Wolfe's impact and influence throughout Europe. In doing so, he de-territorializes the response to Wolfe's work, revealing the writer as a fundamentally global presence within American literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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