Background
Fussell was born in Pasadena, California and grew up there. His father, Paul Longstreth Fussell (15 January 1895-1816 July 1973), was a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers.
(The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first to reveal t...)
The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first to reveal the profound Catholic imagery in James' work. Edwin Fussell argues that Henry James, though not a "card-carrying" Catholic, was a fellow-traveling Catholic of a certain literary type. Fussell is not trying to turn James into a Closet Catholic but is, rather, intent on questioning conventional critical assumptions about James' unquestioned secularity. He contends that the writer's career began with narratives of Catholic conversion and ended with his masterpiece of Catholic eccentricity and alienation, The Golden Bowl. With an enormously detailed knowledge of James' novels, tales, letters, and journals, Fussell convincingly demonstrates the extent of the writer's involvement with the ideas of Catholicism.
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Fussell was born in Pasadena, California and grew up there. His father, Paul Longstreth Fussell (15 January 1895-1816 July 1973), was a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers.
Harvard University.
He was the elder brother of Paul Fussell. His mother was born Wilhma Wilson Sill in Illinois 21 August 1893 and died 23 March 1971. In 1943 Fussell earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College.
Thereafter he joined the United States. Navy, serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World World War World War II He received a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1949.
Fussell first taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He refused to sign a loyalty oath during the era of Senator.
Joseph McCarthy"s "communist-hunting" in the early 1950s, losing his professorship as a result. Fussell then went to Pomona College, his alma mater, where he taught American Literature.
After teaching at the Claremont Graduate School, Fussell joined the faculty of University of California-San Diego.
He retired in 1991. During his retirement, Fussell lived in Paris and Rome. He still wrote, especially about Henry James, Chateaubriand, and Balzac.
Fussell died in August 2002 in Louisiana Jolla, California.
(The Catholic Side of Henry James is the first to reveal t...)