Edward Stanly: Whiggerys Tarheel Conquer - Softcover

Norman Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817312919 ISBN 13: 9780817312916

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 2003

Synopsis

Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly's life.

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Review:

"An interesting and informative account of the problems of a Unionist at the time of secession."--"Journal of American History"

About the Author:

Norman Oliver Brown (1913 2002) was an American intellectual of wide ranging interests, graduating from Oxford with an MA and from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a Ph.D. in the Classics. During World War II, Brown worked for the OSS as a specialist on French culture and later became Professor of Classics at Wesleyan University. In the late 1960s, he moved on to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was named Professor of Humanities. His initial work in classics betrayed a Marxist bent (his commentary to "Hesiod s Theogony" and his first monograph, "Hermes the Thief"). Following his disenchantment with real politics in the wake of the 1948 presidential election, Brown turned to a deep study of the works of Freud, which culminated in his classic 1959 study "Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History." During his long residence at Santa Cruz, his interests broadened to include James Joyce, classical poetry and mythology, and a deep study of Islam. Many of his later writings were collected in the anthology "Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis."

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0817312919
• ISBN 13: 9780817312916
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376