SCARLET PROFESSOR, THE(ISBN=9780385494694) 英文原版
During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvinpub-lished groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville,and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship andpsycho-logical acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes ofEdmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to TrumanCapote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspectArvin never-theless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 hisapartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica wasconfiscated, plung-ing him into confusion and despair and provokinghis panicked betrayal of several friends. An utterly absorbing chronicle, The Scarlet Professor deftlycap-tures the essence of a conflicted man and offers a provocativeandunsettling look at American moral fanaticism. "Fascinating A riveting character study Vividlycaptures the troubled times and too quickly forgotten life of thequietly courageous Arvin Werth has written one of the mostemotionally engaging and socially relevant b
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