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Equipment for Living

Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us


by George Stade
Equipment for Living: Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us takes us on a
lively romp through the modern movement, from high literature to hardboiled
detective and horror fiction. Novelist and literary critic, George Stade, challenges
us with his controversial contention that "womanism" has triumphed over
"manism", and his wit flies with a rip-roaring excursion into "snot, navel-fluff,
and toe jam" in an examination of James Joyce's Ulysses. He ranges from Dracula's
women to Sylvia Plath, modern British fiction to football and aggression.

This collection has been selected from more than fifty articles, reviews and essays
written by George Stade and first published in journals such as Partisan Review,
Hudson Review, Harper's, and the New York Times Book Review.
“... a tour de force of wit, critical insight, and blissfully first-rate prose ...”
Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and
The Feminization of American Culture

“... I urge readers to read the book; they will be reminded why they love
literature.”
Norman Loftis, poet, novelist, essayist and filmmaker

“... Stade is never less than entertaining and provocative. It is a treat to have these
$ 18.95 US essays at last collected in a single volume.”
ISBN 978-88-901960-6-5 Michael Rosenthal, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities,
www.literaturemoderns.com Columbia University
www.paripublishing.com
“George Stade is a book-lover’s book-lover.... This is criticism at its vigorous best.”
Available October 2007 Publishing Alison MacLeod, author of The Wave Theory of Angels and Fifteen Modern Tales of
Attraction

Equipment for Living


Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us
by George Stade
Equipment for Living: Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us takes us on a
lively romp through the modern movement, from high literature to hardboiled
detective and horror fiction. Novelist and literary critic, George Stade, challenges
us with his controversial contention that "womanism" has triumphed over
"manism", and his wit flies with a rip-roaring excursion into "snot, navel-fluff,
and toe jam" in an examination of James Joyce's Ulysses. He ranges from Dracula's
women to Sylvia Plath, modern British fiction to football and aggression.

This collection has been selected from more than fifty articles, reviews and essays
written by George Stade and first published in journals such as Partisan Review,
Hudson Review, Harper's, and the New York Times Book Review.
“... a tour de force of wit, critical insight, and blissfully first-rate prose ...”
Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and
The Feminization of American Culture

“... I urge readers to read the book; they will be reminded why they love
literature.”
Norman Loftis, poet, novelist, essayist and filmmaker

“... Stade is never less than entertaining and provocative. It is a treat to have these
$ 18.95 US essays at last collected in a single volume.”
ISBN 978-88-901960-6-5 Michael Rosenthal, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities,
www.literaturemoderns.com Columbia University
www.paripublishing.com
“George Stade is a book-lover’s book-lover.... This is criticism at its vigorous best.”
Available October 2007 Publishing Alison MacLeod, author of The Wave Theory of Angels and Fifteen Modern Tales of
Attraction

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