James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia

by Edgar E. MacDonald

Book Overview

In his prime, Vanity Fair nominated James Branch Cabell for "Immortality" on its pages reserved for acclaiming the most select of notable achievers. Favored by the intelligentsia, Cabell was the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087805622X
• ISBN13: 9780878056224
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Unjustly neglected author...

Along with his own autobiographical writings and a chapter in Joe Lee Davis's Twayne book on Cabell, this is the best coverage of the life of this unjustly neglected author. It is, however not without its flaws. There are a few places where information is unnecessarily repeated, even down to the use of identical phrasing; and there's at least one factual howler: Cabell's early friend the novelist Justus Miles Foreman is said to have died on the Titanic in 1912 -- but actually he died on the Lusitania in 1915! There could perhaps have been more interrogation of the racial and social situation in 19c Virginia. But over all a good job...