1st Edition
Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Thornton Wilder as Poeta Doctus
Chapter Two. An American Successor to Vergil: The Cabala
Chapter Three. Sapphica puella Musa doctior: The Female Sage
Chapter Four. The Torch Race of Literature and The Skin of Our Teeth
Chapter Five. Our Tears: Lacrimae Rerum as Wilder’s Recurrent Motif
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr. is an American independent scholar. He balanced his M.D. with an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Crediting his years of practice in psychiatry with attentiveness to nuance and patterns, he has published on Thornton Wilder, classical reception, and the medical humanities.
"A book of vast and moving scholarship." - Michael Olmert, University of Maryland, USA.
"Reading the first chapter was sheer delight for this Wilder scholar who thought he knew everything about Wilder. Rojcewicz is deepening our understanding of Thornton Wilder’s development as writer overall but particularly in his classical qualities, even beyond Niven’s biography and the published letters." - Lincoln Konkle, The College of New Jersey, USA.
