Peter Edgerly Firchow (Books)

Peter Edgerly Firchow Books

December 16, 1937 – October 18, 2008

Peter Edgerly Firchow was an American literary scholar and educator whose work extensively explored the intricate connections between British and German literature during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A leading scholar of Aldous Huxley, Firchow delved into the cross-cultural influences that shaped literary production and thought. His scholarship illuminated the profound dialogues between these two significant literary traditions.

Reluctant modernists

352 pages
13 hours of reading

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A Collection of Essays edited by Evelyn S. Firchow and Bernfried Nugel with an introduction by Jerome Meckier and a personal memoir by Janice Rossen. Presented on the occasion of his 65th Birthday.This collection of essays is about modernist writers who believe that it is just as important to look backward as it is to look forward. Indeed, for most, looking backward is more important because it is only through the past that one can understand one's proper place in the present and in the future. That is why Huxley's Brave New World rejects the past in the future--and by implication in the present--where it makes its satire so penetrating. Modernism, in other words, means for these writers not a radical break with the past, but a continuing search for what still connects them (and us) vitally with it.