Henry Green

Peter Wolfe is a curators’ professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The author of more than 20 books, he has also taught in Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Poland and Australia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsviiiPrefaceOne. Learning How to Listen, What to Listen ForTwo. Nowhere to Hide in the Combat ZoneThree. Co-Existing with the RigmaroleFour. Straight to Sorcery BlindnessLivingParty GoingFive. The Home FiresCaughtLovingBackSix. Perplexed EstablishmentsConcludingNothingDotingConclusion: Waiting for the Shoe to DropChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“Henry Green (1905–73) is a writer’s writer. He has endured severe reverses of popularity and familiarity, more than once going from high visibility, thanks to praise by significant critics, to almost complete eclipse. This study, built on close readings of Green’s major novels, analyzes why Green is so easily overlooked and offers multiple reasons for Green’s rightful place alongside Joyce, Woolf, and Eliot.... One leaves this study with a thorough knowledge of Green’s oeuvre and full insight into his mastery of high modernism, including stream-of-consciousness, distorted time signatures, and fractured perceptions...recommended”—Choice.