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Eudora Welty

The Contemporary Reviews

Pearl Amelia McHaney editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:31st Mar '05

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A collection of over two hundred contemporary reviews of the work of Eudora Welty.

Eudora Welty's writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. The reviews selected for reprinting here represent the diversity of Welty's reception and assessment and the nuances of Welty's much admired but challenging style.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty's writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. From the first, reviewers loved Welty's language and disparaged her lack of plot. Their eager anticipation for the next book is rarely diminished by the shock of reading entirely different styles of writing. Her work was admired even as it challenged its readers. The reviews selected for reprinting here represent the diversity of Welty's reception and assessment. Reviews from small towns, urban centers, noted fiction writers, professional reviewers, academics, and everyday readers are included. The comments of reviewing rivals such as the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, Nation and New Yorker, when read side by side, reveal the nuances both of the reviewers and of the work of this important Southern writer.

ISBN: 9780521653176

Dimensions: 234mm x 157mm x 26mm

Weight: 830g

422 pages