Republic of dreams : Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910-1960 / Ross Wetzsteon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetzsteon, Ross, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bohemianism.

History.

Artists.

Intellectuals.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.).

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.

Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (State)--New York.

Intellectuals--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Artists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Bohemianism--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

New York (State)--New York--Greenwich Village.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xvii, 617 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910-1960

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2002]

Summary:

Chronicles the New York City neighborhood's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of individuals who came to the neighborhood to pursue their individual artistic, personal, and political dreams.

Contents:

Mabel Dodge's salon : "oh, how we were all intertwined!"

Max Eastman and The masses : "just-before-dawn of a new day"

Jig Cook, Eugene O'Neill, and the Provincetown players : "the beloved community of life-givers"

The feminists of the village : meetings with remarkable women

Edna St. Vincent Millay : "a lovely light"

Eminent villagers

William Carlos Williams, the little magazines, and the poetry wars

Hart Crane : the roaring boy of the village

Maxwell Bodenheim : "poems twenty-five cents each"

Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein : "the knife of love"

Joe Gould : the last of the last bohemians

Djuna Barnes : "one's life is peculiarly one's own when one has invented it"

E.E. Cummings and Dylan Thomas : the village as sanctuary, the village as stage

Delmore Schwartz : alien in residence

Dawn Powell : the village as an idea of itself

Jackson Pollock and the abstract expressionists in the village : rearranging the stars.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-586) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of dreams.

ISBN:

0684869950

9780684869957

0684869969

9780684869964

OCLC:

46975131

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