Authors, American. – Page 3 – Pacifica Radio Archives

Criticism of F.R. Leavis / Rene Wellek.

Talk on Leavis’ writings.

Talk on the life and work of the American author.

On the underpinnings of Fitzgerald’s writings.

On his romantic writing and its impact on American letters.

On the moral basis of his transendentalist writings.

On the positive and negative aspects of Melville’s writings.

On Waukeen Miller, Bret Hart, and Ambrose Bierce, and their popularization of California.

On the rise of American realism, particulary in the works of William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and Harold Fredrick.

On the author who characterized frontier humor.

On the pro-American aspects of James’ writings.