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Author: Hugh Davis ,
Hugh Davis
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Imprint: University of Tennessee Press
Edition: 2nd annotated edition
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 6.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.628kg
ISBN: 9781621900306
ISBN 10: 1621900304
Pages: 1084
Publication Date: 30 September 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Let Us Now Praise Famous Men provided a document of the Great Depression, a moral touchstone for the Civil Rights Movement, and a literary model for the New Journalism. Hugh Davis's expertly crafted new edition is certain to become the definitive text for Agee's non-fiction masterpiece, providing invaluable cultural context in his critical essay, and equally important textual variants and unseen materials from the Agee archives. When readers want to understand the 'Spirit of the Age' for mid-century America, Hugh Davis's edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is the book they should reach for first."" --Jesse Graves, author of Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine ""Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is the Moby Dick of nonfiction. Both masterpieces have elements of the style and tone of fiction and of the information and tone of nonfiction. Hugh Davis has put together all the components that went into the making and remaking of Agee's epic subjective saga. Solidly scholarly on the loftiest level, this compilation may be read in the spirit and with the effect of one's reading of the first published version--Agee's profound exploration of various kinds of perspectives on what he saw and felt in Alabama."" --David Madden"
Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is the Moby Dick of nonfiction. Both masterpieces have elements of the style and tone of fiction and of the information and tone of nonfiction. Hugh Davis has put together all the components that went into the making and remaking of Agee's epic subjective saga. Solidly scholarly on the loftiest level, this compilation may be read in the spirit and with the effect of one's reading of the first published version--Agee's profound exploration of various kinds of perspectives on what he saw and felt in Alabama. --David Madden
Author Information
Hugh Davis is an associate professor of English at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, USA. He is the author of The Making of James Agee and coeditor, with Michael A. Lofaro, of James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other New Manuscripts, both published by the University of Tennessee Press.
