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The extraordinary vigor of mid-century literature, a period Dickens called 'this summer-dawn of time,' is well demonstrated in Professor Dawson's most readable and enlightening vertical analysis of a crucial year . . . The reader will be surprised at how the narrow corner of a single year can be as revealing a study of a period as a detail-laden survey of a decade or a century.

The extraordinary vigor of mid-century literature, a period Dickens called 'this summer-dawn of time, ' is well demonstrated in Professor Dawson's most readable and enlightening vertical analysis of a crucial year... The reader will be surprised at how the narrow corner of a single year can be as revealing a study of a period as a detail-laden survey of a decade or a century. --New York Times

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Carl Dawson was a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. His previous books have been studies of Thomas Love Peacock and the poetry and prose of Matthew Arnold.

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