From Dawn to Decadence (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Jacques Barzun
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History and sociology
- Setting: Europe and the United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Sixteenth century, Renaissance, Romanticism, Victorian era or Victorianism, Reformation, Modernism
- Locales: Europe, United States
Jacques Barzun has had a stellar career—or, rather, several of them. He was an influential teacher-scholar at Columbia University, where he and the critic Lionel Trilling conducted a famous colloquium on the Great Books. He also undertook a second occupation as an administrator, serving as dean of the arts faculty and provost at Columbia. For many years he, Trilling, and the poet W. H. Auden ran the Readers’ Subscription Book Club, taking turns at writing essays about their monthly selections. He also wrote twenty-nine books that impressed both academics and general readers,...
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