The tortured life of Scofield Thayer / James Dempsey.
| Author/creator | Dempsey, James, 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]. |
| Description | xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | An intellectual sewer -- Homes of virtue -- Harvard -- Oxford during the war -- The Chicago Experiment -- Lady of the Sonnets -- Death of the prophet -- To the center of things -- Starting with a bang -- Manhattan love stories -- Anti-epithalamion -- To the great master -- Assessing the modern -- A millionaire in Red Vienna -- Teuton versus Francophile -- Barnes in eruption -- Feuds galore -- Annus Belli -- Freudless in Vienna -- Return of the prodigal -- The death of The Dial -- Thayer in eclipse -- Postmortem -- God, stars, and sea: Thayer's poetic legacy. |
| Abstract | Scofield Thayer, as owner of The Dial during the 1920s, was the center of the flow of cultural ideas between the United States and Europe, particularly those of the various modernist movements. This is the first biography of Thayer. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013034527 |
| ISBN | 9780813049267 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |