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- catalog abstract "With fifty books to his name, Louis Auchincloss has achieved a stature few can match as a novelist, biographer, essayist, and cultural historian. In this new collection of biographical profiles combining literary and social history, Auchincloss aims his polished and finely pointed pen at the authors who have most fascinated him over the years, from Shakespeare's contemporaries to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams. These eighteen profiles, some of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review, show the critical insights of a celebrated writer best known for his fiction but equally astute in examining "The Two Marcels of Proust," peeling away longstanding misconceptions about Edith Wharton's early development as a writer, and exploring "Aestheticism and Homosexuality" in Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater. Auchincloss explores the creative tension between style and substance, between fiction and life. His own style is always witty, elegant, and thoroughly engaging. Not afraid to speak his mind, he never minces words, as when he writes about Tennessee Williams, "His heroes and heroines are sexual impulses, his plots a kind of sexual intercourse." The Style's the Man not only illuminates the master stylists in literature but equally demonstrates Louis Auchincloss's own wide-ranging interests, incisive intelligence, and taste cultivated over a long and distinguished career. Here he offers up a literary feast for book lovers and students alike.".
- catalog alternative "Style is the man.".
- catalog contributor b6523734.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Auchincloss explores the creative tension between style and substance, between fiction and life. His own style is always witty, elegant, and thoroughly engaging. Not afraid to speak his mind, he never minces words, as when he writes about Tennessee Williams, "His heroes and heroines are sexual impulses, his plots a kind of sexual intercourse."".
- catalog description "In this new collection of biographical profiles combining literary and social history, Auchincloss aims his polished and finely pointed pen at the authors who have most fascinated him over the years, from Shakespeare's contemporaries to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams.".
- catalog description "The Style's the Man not only illuminates the master stylists in literature but equally demonstrates Louis Auchincloss's own wide-ranging interests, incisive intelligence, and taste cultivated over a long and distinguished career. Here he offers up a literary feast for book lovers and students alike.".
- catalog description "The wit of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- William Gaddis -- The tragic mood in early Jacobean drama -- The inner FDR -- The Waste land without Pound -- Babylon revisited: Gore Vidal's America trilogy -- Remembering Marguerite Yourcenar -- The two Marcels of Proust -- Portrait of the artist as Strether -- Pater and Wilde: aestheticism and homosexuality -- "My dear blest Percy!": Percy Lubbock and Edith Wharton -- Courtship in Congreve -- Clarissa revisited -- Tennessee Williams: the last Puritan -- The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis letters -- Henry James: the theatre years -- Tamburlaine: existential hero -- Three "perfect novels" and what they have in common.".
- catalog description "These eighteen profiles, some of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review, show the critical insights of a celebrated writer best known for his fiction but equally astute in examining "The Two Marcels of Proust," peeling away longstanding misconceptions about Edith Wharton's early development as a writer, and exploring "Aestheticism and Homosexuality" in Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater.".
- catalog description "With fifty books to his name, Louis Auchincloss has achieved a stature few can match as a novelist, biographer, essayist, and cultural historian.".
- catalog extent "ix, 177 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Style's the man.".
- catalog identifier "0684197421 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Style's the man.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : C. Scribner's Sons,".
- catalog relation "Style's the man.".
- catalog subject "809 20".
- catalog subject "Books Reviews.".
- catalog subject "Literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS3501.U25 S79 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "The wit of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- William Gaddis -- The tragic mood in early Jacobean drama -- The inner FDR -- The Waste land without Pound -- Babylon revisited: Gore Vidal's America trilogy -- Remembering Marguerite Yourcenar -- The two Marcels of Proust -- Portrait of the artist as Strether -- Pater and Wilde: aestheticism and homosexuality -- "My dear blest Percy!": Percy Lubbock and Edith Wharton -- Courtship in Congreve -- Clarissa revisited -- Tennessee Williams: the last Puritan -- The Lyttelton-Hart-Davis letters -- Henry James: the theatre years -- Tamburlaine: existential hero -- Three "perfect novels" and what they have in common.".
- catalog title "Style is the man.".
- catalog title "The style's the man : reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and others / Louis Auchincloss.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Reviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".