Mixing Memory and Desire: The Waste Land and British Novels

by Fred D. Crawford

Book Overview

The first comprehensive treatment of how "an American poet so profoundly shaped or affected the modern British novel," this in the words of James E. Miller, Jr. details "an extraordinary and even exciting literary fact, worthy of full documentation and exploration. "The book begins with an introduction describing how The Waste Land blew into England in 1922, as William Empson said, "not unlike an east wind." Although the critics disagree over what...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271003081
• ISBN13: 9780271003085
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 170 Pages