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'Atkins makes a case not only for the clarity and congeniality of E. B. White's writing, but for what is often overlooked, his complexity. White was not just an old curmudgeon messing about with rats and pigs and spiders on his Maine farm; he was a significant thinker who reflected many key perspectives of the twentieth century: the fear of nuclear war, the need for urbanites to simplify their lives and get back in touch with gardening, the hazards of racism, New York City and its complications, illness, politics, and death. Atkins develops all of these themes and more in his analysis of White. But more than the subject matter, Atkins also opens discussions of White's style: his strengths, and even some of his weaknesses as a writer.' Dr. Steven Faulkner, Longwood University
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Book Title: E. B. White
Book Subtitle: The Essayist as First-Class Writer
Authors: G. Douglas Atkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015068
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: G. Douglas Atkins 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34066-4Published: 29 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34328-7Published: 29 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01506-8Published: 14 February 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 172
Topics: Literary History, North American Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature