Background
Aaron, Daniel was born on August 4, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry J. and Rose (Weinstein) Aaron.
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"Writers on the Left" provides a chronicle of the involvement of American writers with the critical style and politics of communism. Emphasizing the golden age of American communism, Aaron traces the movement's bohemian origins to its demise in the early 1940s. Aaron creates a perceptive portrait of writers like Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, John Reed, Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman. Aaron also discusses the attractions of communism for more ambivalent but influential "fellow travellers" such as Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Theodore Dreiser, Richard Wright and Langston Hughes.
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( In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literar...)
In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers—major and minor—who treated the Civil War in their works. He seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why there is still no "masterpiece" of Civil War fiction. In his portraits and analyses of 19th- and some 20th-century writers, Aaron distinguishes between those who dealt with the war only marginally—Henry Adams, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain-and those few who sounded the war's tragic import—Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and William Faulkner. He explores the extent to which the war changed the direction of American literature and how deeply it entered the consciousness of American writers. Aaron also considers how writers, especially those from the South, discerned the war's moral and historical implications. The Unwritten War was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1973. The New Republic declared, This book's major contribution will no doubt be to American literary history. In this respect it resembles Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore and is certain to become an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to explore the letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, short stories, poems-but apparently no plays-which constitute Civil War literature. The mass of material is presented in a systematic, luminous, and useful way.
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author English language educator
Aaron, Daniel was born on August 4, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Henry J. and Rose (Weinstein) Aaron.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1933; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1943; Doctor of Letters (honorary), Union College, 1967; the Doctor of Letters, University Pennsylvania, 1976; Doctor of Letters, Colby College, 1981.
Assistant, University of Michigan, 1935-1936;
instructor, Harvard University, 1936-1939;
Professor of English, Harvard University, since 1971;
Victor Thomas professor emeritus department English and American language and literature, Harvard University, 1975;
member of faculty, Smith College, 1939-1971;
Professor of English, Smith College, 1958-1961;
Mary Augusta Jordon professor, Smith College, 1961-1971;
director American studies, Smith College, 1948-1971;
visiting professor, Bennington College, 1950-1951;
visiting professor, U. Helsinki (Finland), 1951-1952;
visiting professor, U. Warsaw (Poland), 1962-1963;
visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fall 1965;
visiting professor, Harvard University, since 1971;
visiting professor, Brandeis U., spring 1983. Fulbright professor of University Sussex (England), 1968-1969. Summer lecturer Salzburg Seminar American Studies, since 1949, director, since 1956.
Fellow National Humanities Institute, Yale University, 1975-1976. President Library of America, 1979-1988.
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(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
( In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literar...)
( In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literar...)
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
("Writers on the Left" provides a chronicle of the involve...)
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Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism (1961, 1974 and 1992).
American Academy of Arts and Letters. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Council of Learned Societies.
Married Janet Summers, August 25, 1937. Children: Jonathan, James Summers, Paul Gaston.