Axel’s Castle (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmund Wilson
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Literary history and criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Symbolism, Romanticism, Realism, Neoclassicism, Modernism, Literary criticism
Critical Evaluation:
The subtitle of this volume, which has by now become a minor classic in American criticism, explains the author’s purpose: to write a “study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930”; and the dedicatory note, addressed to Christian Gauss of Princeton, explains the author’s conception of “what literary criticism ought to be,” that is, “a history of man’s ideas and imaginings in the setting of the conditions which have shaped them.” The book is, however, more limited than the subtitle might seem to indicate; it is actually a history of the...
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