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Leon Edel: Cover of volume one of Leon Edel's five-volume biography of Henry James, Avon Books paperback edition 1978 |
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 Joseph Leon Edel (9 September 1907 – 5 September 1997) was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Saskatchewan. Edel...



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 American Scholar
Leon Edel: the life of a biographer.
09/22/1997: 7,218 words, approx. 24 pages Leon Edel is a biographer who spent his life dealing with artists rather than being an academecian. His life revolved in writing about the life and works of Henry James. The Life of a Biographer From the beginning, Leon Edel's life has...
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 The Independent - London
Obituary: Professor Leon Edel
09/11/1997: 1,847 words, approx. 6 pages Leon Edel, biographer and editor of Henry James, was the foremost Jamesian scholar of his age and played an important part in rescuing the novelist from the indifference of British readers and the hostility of those American critics who believed that James had betrayed...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Quentin Anderson
2,028 words, approx. 7 pages
 The last of Leon Edel's five volumes, "Henry James, The Master: 1901–1916," has appeared, and those who have, since the publication of the first volume in 1953, enjoyed his skilfully managed unfolding of the novelist's career may simply be assured that the climaxes of this period [are] … all properly scaled to give them their accustomed pleasures, in a prose tone which has a perceptibly, though not disproportionately, greater touch of magniloquence than that of earl...
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Critical Essay by William H. Gass
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 The exact sensuous feel of things was something, on occasion, [Henry James] expressed a clear desire and even a preference for: He wanted the hour of the day at which this and that had happened, and the temperature and the weather and the sound, and yet more the stillness, from the street, and the exact lookout, with the corresponding look-in, through the window and the slant on the walls of the light of afternoons that had been….
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Critical Essay by David Trotter
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 "If we pierce any artist's legend", Edel claims [in his latest book, Stuff of Sleep and Dreams], "we discover an all-too-troubled human." Piercing the artist, and the "human" behind the artist, he discovers an all-too-troubled legend. The legend is called "literary psychology". Literary psychology seeks the emotions and the persona within the work as distinct from the person of the artist. It is an attempt to study the metamorphoses...


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