Edwin and Willa Muir a literary marriage
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Coming Together 1918-1921 -- Part I ADVENTURING IN EUROPE -- 2 Prague and a New Czech Republic 1921-1922 -- 3 Elbflorenz 1922-1923 -- 4 North and South 1923-1924 --...
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2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Coming Together 1918-1921 -- Part I ADVENTURING IN EUROPE -- 2 Prague and a New Czech Republic 1921-1922 -- 3 Elbflorenz 1922-1923 -- 4 North and South 1923-1924 -- 5 Fête du Citron 1924-1926 -- Part II PUTTING DOWN ROOTS -- 6 Early Writings -- 7 Willa and Womanhood 1927-1929 -- 8 Crowborough and Literary Life 1929-1931 -- Part III THE POLITICAL THIRTIES -- 9 Changing Worlds and a Hampstead Idyll 1930-1933 -- 10 Scottish Journeys 1933-1935 -- 11 Scotland and Europe 1935-1939 -- 12 Translating for a Living -- Part IV A SINGLE, DISUNITED WORLD -- 13 The Second World War in St Andrews 1939-1942 -- 14 Edinburgh and a New Poetry 1942-1945 -- 15 The Cold War and Prague 1945-1948 -- 16 Roman Interlude 1948-1950 -- 17 Newbattle Abbey 1950-1955 -- Part V A NEW WORLD -- 18 American Adventure 1955-1956 -- 19 Swaffham Prior 1956-1959 -- 20 Willa Alone 1959-1963 -- 21 Last Years 1963-1970 -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index This is the story of a literary marriage. It tells of the partnership between Edwin and Willa Muir, two intellectuals from small town Scottish backgrounds and their discovery of Europe in the years after the first and second world wars. It tells us about the cultural, social, and political issues of those dynamic and difficult years and much else, in intimate detail, about their own personal struggles. Edwin Muir was to become a leading poet in the twentieth century Scottish literary renaissance, but to make a living the couple also worked as translators of modern German literature, including key works by Hermann Broch and, most famously, Franz Kafka. They were intimate with many of the leading writers of their time, both at home and abroad, and these contacts, and their travels in Europe gave them a special and sometimes painful insight into the trials of the twentieth century. Dr Margery McCulloch's study draws on personal travel and a wealth of new sources from private correspondence, publishers' archives, the recollections of friends, and the diaries, unpublished journals, and autobiographical memoirs of Edwin and Willa themselves. This is the fullest account of the couple's life and times together during a long and loving marriage, not without its difficulties as Willa struggled to find proper acknowledgement of her translation skills, and space for her own creativity as a novelist in the shadow of her own ill health and Edwin's growing status as a major modern poet. |
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| Beschreibung: | ix, 350 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780192858047 978-0-19-285804-7 |