E. B. White : the essayist as first-class writer /
This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan and coauthor of The Elements of Style. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and "the writing life," offering fresh, detailed readings...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Coming into White country
- E. B. White and the writing life : affirming life's newness and joy
- Of nature, Maine, and meaning : or, "The pageantry of peas" and the poetics of adversity
- Strange bedfellows and deconstruction of oppositions : the "Recording Secretary" speaks his mind on politics
- Postscript : looking for E.B. White
- Appendix : reading "Once more to the lake."