James Gould Cozzens: New Acquist of True Experience (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques)

When James Gould Cozzens died on 9 August 1978, his literary career had spanned 13novels and 54 years, and his dedication to his craft had produced a body of fiction unsurpassed in its fidelity to life and in hard intelligence. Yet, the brilliant body of work by this master American novelist has elicited little crit­ical attention. The process of reappraisal commences with this volume.

The essays assembled here, for the most part previously unpublished, indi­cate some worthwhile critical approaches and suggest useful areas for further ex­amination. Contributors include Louis O. Coxe, Colin Cass, John William Ward, Pierre Michel, Robert Scholes, R. H. W. Dillard, R. V. Cassill, Morris H. Wolff, and Leland H. Cox, Jr.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809309300
• ISBN13: 9780809309306
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"