THE INDEPENDENT RADICAL OBSERVER

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CONTRIBUTORS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. THE CRITIC AND HIS PREMISES
6. EDMUND WILSON: THREE PHASES 15
7. THE RELIGION OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 27
8. WILSON'S ROMANTICISM 35
9. WILSON'S MODERNISM 39
10. THE WRITER'S EYE 53
11. EDMUND WILSON AND GENTILE PHILO-SEMITISM 70
12. WILSON THE MAN
13. A READING OF THE JOURNALS 91
14. THE PERSPECTIVE OF BIOGRAPHY: 1929, A TURNING POINT 109
15. REMEMBERING EDMUND WILSON 135
16. THE ADMIRABLE MINOTAUR OF MONEY HILL 154
17. REVISITING THE CRITIC ON THE SCROLLS 169
18. THE WRITING AND ACTING OF HISTORY
19. WILSON'S LENIN 177
20. THE INDEPENDENT RADICAL OBSERVER 186
21. WILSON AND SOVIET RUSSIA 195
22. PATRIOTIC GORE AND THE INTRODUCTION 208
23. OMISSIONS IN PATRIOTIC GORE 221
24. A GREAT MAN'S LIMITATIONS 233
25. WILSON DIVIDED 240
26. PERSPECTIVES
27. EDMUND WILSON IN HIS TIMES 253
28. WILSON AND OUR NON-WILSONIAN AGE 266
29. AFTERWORD 276
30. INDEX 285