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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1138875547 Title: Look abroad, angel : Thomas Wolfe and the geographies of longing Author: Jedidiah Evans Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2020. ISBN/ISSN: 9780820356457 082035645X OCLC:1138875547

  
  

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Look abroad, angel : Thomas Wolfe and the geographies of longing

Author:	Jedidiah Evans
Publisher:	Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2020.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1900-38) was one of the most influential southern writers, regularly considered a rival of his contemporary William Faulkner-who believed Wolfe to be one of the greatest talents of their generation. His novels-including Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Of Time and the River (1935), and the posthumously published The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940)-remain touchstones of U.S. literature. In Look Abroad, Angel, Jedidiah Evans uncovers the "global Wolfe," reconfiguring Wolfe's supposedly intractable homesickness for the American South as a form of longing that is instead indeterminate and expansive. Instead of promoting and reinforcing a narrow and cloistered formulation of the writer as merely southern or Appalachian, Evans places Wolfe in transnational contexts, examining Wolfe's impact and influence throughout Europe. In doing so, he de-territorializes the response to Wolfe's work, revealing the writer as a fundamentally global presence within American literature"--  Read more...
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Subjects	Wolfe, Thomas, -- 1900-1938 -- Criticism and interpretation. Wolfe, Thomas, -- 1900-1938.
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