1st Edition

Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism

Edited By Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout Copyright 2012
200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with local avant-garde circles, and eventually emerging as one of the most exciting and surprising... Read more

Selected Contents: Introduction: Back at the Waldorf? Lisa Goldfarb and Bart Eeckhout  1. Stevens and New York: The Long Gestation George S. Lensing  2. "My Head Full of Strange Pictures": Stevens in the New York Galleries Bonnie Costello  3. "The Whispering of Innumerable Responsive Spirits": Stevens’ New York Music Lisa Goldfarb  4. Stevens Dancing: "Something Light, Winged, Holy" Barbara M. Fisher  5. The Invisible Skyscraper: Stevens and Urban Architecture Bart Eeckhout  6. On Stevensian Transitoriness Axel Nesme  7. Stevens and Henry James: The New York Connection Glen MacLeod  8. "Unless New York Is Cocos": Stevens, New York, and the Discourse of Disappointment Juliette Utard  9. Bourgeois Abstraction: Gastronomy, Painting, Poetry, and the Allure of New York in Early to Late Stevens Edward Ragg  Coda: Wallace Stevens of the New York School Alan Filreis

Biography

Lisa Goldfarb is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and President of The Wallace Stevens Society and Associate Editor Elect of The Wallace Stevens Journal.

Bart Eeckhout is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and Editor Elect of The Wallace Stevens Journal.