1st Edition

Herman Wouk The Novelist as Social Historian

By Arnold Beichman Copyright 2004
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace. Situating Wouk in the same literary tradition as Cervantes, Richardson, Balzac, and Dickens, Beichman demonstrates that Wouk's novels have strong... Read more
1: Early Influences; 2: A Good Start: Aurora Dawn; 3: Caribbean Carnival: A Tragicomedy; 4: The Boys of Summer; 5: The Caine Mutiny: Authority versus Responsibility; 6: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Marjorie Morningstar; 7: Youngblood Hawke: “Young Man from the Provinces”; 8: A Writer and His Ideas; 9: The Greatness: The War Novels; 10: Looking Forward: A Nonconclusion

Biography

Arnold Beichman