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Castronovo, David was born on October 30, 1945 in Brooklyn. Son of Anthony John and Doris Loretta (Oliver) Castronovo.
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For half a century, Edmund Wilson played a major role in American letters. He also often acted as the playboy of its cultural and literary elite: Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, actress Mary Blair, writer Mary McCarthy, poet Léonie Adams, and journalist and screenwriter Penelope Gilliatt were among his numerous dalliances. Add Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, and Elinor Wylie as his drinking buddies, and it's easy to see why authors David Castronovo and Janet Groth turned a curious eye to the portly critic and his unlikely romantic successes. Each woman he came to know posed an alluring interpretive problem, an erotic or analytic challenge, a presence that fired his imagination. In the able hands of Castronovo and Groth, Wilson's Rabelaisian passions, ardors, and vulnerabilities — complicated by his ideas about love, sex, and marriage — become the ingredients of a story quite singular in modern American culture.
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This examination and celebration of the literature and thought of the 1950s throws the enduring works of a golden era into high relief. An unconventional tour of a crucial period in 20th-century culture, the present book avoids sweeping surveys and gets to the heart of major achievement. After the great renaissance of the 1920s and early 1930s, American modernism seemed to be stalled, to be awaiting another burst of talent. The post-World War II period provided that new energy and genius, with book after book that broke through the ordinary realistic atmosphere of bestseller lists, and offered experimentation, arresting content, and transformation of old literary forms. In short, from the late 1940s through the JFK years, America was the home office of literary innovation. Writers forged new styles with the rapidly changing times, and generated new ideas that fit the challenges of late modernity. Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit shows how particular landmark books took on the hot-button subjects of the 1950s--race and religious difference; social class and the suburbs; the youth culture; rebellion, conformity, and groupthink; the telling conflicts over taste and judgment--and how, in the process, whether we realize it or not, this body of super-charged literature shaped today's American culture.
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the Englsih Gentleman is an exotic survivor of the modern world who has much to tell about the conduct of life, and about customs and social conditions that have not altogether vanished. With his ancestor worship, self-protective habits, rituals, and prohibitions, he is nothing so much as a member of an extraordinary tribe. What is a gentleman? Is the status term that people often use vaguely in any way important for contemporary life? Why do we continue to hold the image of the gentleman in such a high esteem? Originating in Dr. Castronovo's fascination with Dickens's Great Expectations and his story of a young boy's social ambitions, this book explores one of the key ideals and life-styles of our cultural heritage. It offers a wide-ranging exploration of the value- and weakness - of one of civilization's recurring models of excellence, Through consideration of novelists as diverse as Thackeray and D.H. Lawrence, and a variety of essayist, poets, courtesy writers, and social commentators through the centuries, the multifaceted image of the English gentleman is examined and appreciated as a cultural artifact. The gentlemean is typified in chapters that deal with birth, wealth, honor, breeding, religion, and education, Ideal conceptions of how the gentleman is meant to occupy his time are also fruitfully explored. In its keen and lively illumination of this life-style. The English Gentleman is certain to enlighten today's reader. David Castronovo holds a doctorrate from Columbia University and has written widely on literary criticism and modern literature and thought. His 1985 volume, Edmund Wilson, was a New york Times Notable Book. A new study, Thornton Wilder, reevaluetes the writer in the context of the modernist tradition. Dr. Castronovo is associate professor of English at Pace University, New York. .
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Castronovo, David was born on October 30, 1945 in Brooklyn. Son of Anthony John and Doris Loretta (Oliver) Castronovo.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1967; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1975.
Reader, Columbia University, New York City, 1969; adjunct assistant professor, Brooklyn College, 1972-1976; adjunct assistant professor, Pace U., New York City, 1976-1979; assistant professor, Pace U., New York City, 1979-1986; associate professor, Pace U., New York City, 1986-1988; Professor of English, Pace U., New York City, since 1988. Advisory board Peter Lang Public, Inc., New York City.
(A volume in "Twayne's Authors Series" of literary critici...)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Modern Language Association, Princeton Club of New York.