{"product_id":"the-lively-arts-gilbert-seldes-and-the-transformation-of-cultural-criticism-in-the-united-states-by-michael-kammen","title":"The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States by Michael Kammen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 9780195098686\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOxford University Press, 21 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarch 1996\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, 512 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald--and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he had played a leading role in the \"liquidation of genteel culture in America.\" Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters. Equally important, Kammen uses Seldes's life as a lens through which to bring into sharp focus the dramatic shifts in American culture that occurred in the half-century after World War I.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47194007765154,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/61VzZCKOSsL._SL1360.jpg?v=1776863468","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-lively-arts-gilbert-seldes-and-the-transformation-of-cultural-criticism-in-the-united-states-by-michael-kammen","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}