Background
Crowley, John William was born on December 27, 1945 in New Haven. Son of John Adam and Mary T. (McKenna) Crowley.
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George Cabot Lodge (U.S.Authors)
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The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells by Crowley, John (1999) Hardcover
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The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
("There are no second acts in American lives". F. Scott Fi...)
"There are no second acts in American lives". F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous pronouncement, an epitaph for his own foreshortened career, points to a pattern of imaginative blight common among writers of the Lost Generation. As John W. Crowley shows in this study, excessive drinking was a crucial influence on the frequently diminished fortunes of these writers. Indeed, the modernists - especially the men - were a decidedly drunken lot. Taking account of recent work by social historians on the temperance movement, this book examines the relationships between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the 20th century. In explaining the transition from Victorian to modern paradigms of heavy drinking, Crowley focuses on representative fictions by W.D. Howells ("The Landlord at the Lion's Head"), Jack London ("John Barleycorn"), Ernest Hemingway ("The Sun Also Rises"), F. Scott Fitzgerald ("Tender Is the Night"), John O'Hara ("Appointment in Samarra"), Djuna Barnes ("Nightwood"), and Charles Jackson ("The Lost Weekend"). He considers the historical formation of "alcoholism" and earlier concepts of habitual drunkenness and their bearing on the social construction of gender roles. He also looks at the "drunk narratives", a mode of fiction that expresses the conjunction of modernism and alcoholism in a pervasive ideology of despair - the "White Logic" of John Barleycorn, London's nihilistic lord of the spirits.
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The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells
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The final volume of John W. Crowley's trilogy of works on William Dean Howells, this book focuses on the much neglected last decades of the author's life. It was during this period that Howells, already well known as a writer, became a kind of cultural icon, the so-called "Dean of American Letters." Beginning with A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), Crowley sets Howells's later life and work into a personal as well as a public context. He traces the gradual construction of Howells's "Deanship" and its disastrous effects on his reputation, as the self-consciously aging writer sought to adapt, sometimes painfully, to a rapidly changing literary marketplace. We see Howells targeting audiences, trying to generate saleable ideas, worrying about marketing, and reflecting on the influence of commercial competition on art and creativity. In the end, Crowley sees Howells's rise to prominence as an early manifestation of the commodification of culture that came to dominate American letters during the twentieth century. At the same time, he succeeds in conveying the humane virtues that Howells never relinquished―his graciousness, his humility, and his geniality.
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The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
(The first extended literary analysis to take account of r...)
The first extended literary analysis to take account of recent work by social historians on the temperance movement, this book examines the relationship between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the twentieth century. In explaining the transition from Victorian to modern paradigms of heavy drinking, Crowley focuses on representative fictions by W. D. Howells (The Landlord at Lion's Head), Jack London (John Barleycorn), Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night), John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra), Djuna Barnes (Nightwood), and Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend). Crowley considers the historical formation of "alcoholism" and earlier concepts of habitual drunkenness and their bearing on the social construction of gender roles. He also defines the "drunk narrative," a mode of fiction that expresses the conjunction of modernism and alcoholism in a pervasive ideology of despair―the White Logic of John Barleycorn, London's nihilistic lord of the spirits.
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Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard by Crowley, John (1995) Paperback
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Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
(A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary hist...)
A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this book offers not only the first published life of Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), but also a wealth of new material on the formation of gender roles in late nineteenth-century America.
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John William Crowley
Edit Profileliterature and language professor
Education
Bachelor, Yale University, 1967. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1970.
Career
Assistant Professor of English, Syracuse (New York) U., 1970-1974; associate professor, Syracuse (New York) U., 1974-1979; professor, Syracuse (New York) U., since 1979; director humanities doctoral program, Syracuse (New York) U., 1985-1988, 96-; director graduate studies, Syracuse (New York) U., 1986-1989; chair, Syracuse (New York) U., 1989-1992.
Achievements
Works
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The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
(The first extended literary analysis to take account of r...)
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Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
(A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary hist...)
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The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
("There are no second acts in American lives". F. Scott Fi...)
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The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells
(The final volume of John W. Crowley's trilogy of works on...)
- The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural fiction, 1820-1920
- George Cabot Lodge (U.S.Authors)
- The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells by Crowley, John (1999) Hardcover
- The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells by John W. Crowley (2009-06-30)
- Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard by Crowley, John (1995) Paperback
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The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction
Membership
Member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Sheila A. Myers, March 17, 1967 (divorced 1977). Children: Matthew, Anne. Married Susan Wolstenholme, May 27, 1978 (divorced 2001).
Children: Raphael, Mary. Married Emily T. Smith, November 23, 2001.
Education
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1967
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1969
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1970
Career
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1989 - 1992
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2002