NP but an influence, Henry Adams

[Mark Kohut]

I was led to ask because a quick look at ole cranky Henry in 
those HUGE Gale Publisher Lit Crit compendia that all good libraries
have, had some say that Henry's cranky yankee anti-semitism had
diminished his canonicity since his heyday.............
 
Hey, day-lit.....

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: NP but an influence, Henry Adams

> 1) Did Henry Adams' influence more writers back in the day--60s-- than
> lately?

Well, if I take the cranky position, I would guess that Adams was read
by a select few and read deeper. Today, Adams is a best seller, a top
read, a modern library classic must read, number one on the list of
non-fiction, and, and, and, non-fiction is all the rage now, as
fiction fades away, and deeper readings of more chllanging texts
replace the cannon of spoon-fed young adult literature. I would say
that Adams, like Mumford, like Freud, like Sontag,  like so
many...because he had his finger on the pulse, on the zeitgeist, that
beat of a  moment moving magically under memory's mumbling insistance
in the moment when it ceased to matter much, will end up a footnote
from which we may find an allusion to Pynchon.
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