Brother Men , livre ebook

326

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English

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2005

Écrit par
Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs , Weston Herbert T. Weston

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Duke University Press

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326

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2005

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

13 avril 2005

EAN13

9780822386469

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs's decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volume's editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of correspondence Cohen discovered unexpectedly during a visit home includes hundreds of items-letters, photographs, telegrams, postcards, and illustrations-spanning from 1903 to 1945. Since Weston kept carbon copies of his own letters, the material documents a lifelong friendship that had begun in the 1890s, when the two men met in military school. In these letters, Burroughs and Weston discuss their experiences of family, work, war, disease and health, sports, and new technology over a period spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and widespread political change. Their exchanges provide a window into the personal writings of the legendary creator of Tarzan and reveal Burroughs's ideas about race, nation, and what it meant to be a man in early-twentieth-century America.The Burroughs-Weston letters trace a fascinating personal and business relationship that evolved as the two men and their wives embarked on joint capital ventures, traveled frequently, and navigated the difficult waters of child-rearing, divorce, and aging. Brother Men includes never-before-published images, annotations, and a critical introduction in which Cohen explores the significance of the sustained, emotional male friendship evident in the letters. Rich with insights related to visual culture and media technologies, consumerism, the history of the family, the history of authorship and readership, and the development of the West, these letters make it clear that Tarzan was only one small part of Edgar Rice Burroughs's broad engagement with modern culture.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

13 avril 2005

EAN13

9780822386469

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

États-Unis USA

Brother Men

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Edited and with an Introduction by

Matt Cohen

Duke University Press Durham and London 

Printed in the United States of America

on acid-free paper

Typeset in Scala with Golden Cockerel display

by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication

Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

frontispiece:

Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston,

photographer and location unknown, circa .

Courtesy Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

Reproducing a correspondence as historically and visually rich as this one takes much work, and work of many diﬀerent kinds. But without Danton Burroughs—his enthusiasm for the project, his help in ﬁlling out the collection, his willingness to allow the letters to be published— there would have been no work to do. Danton’s reﬂections on his family, and the expert assistance of the staﬀ at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., came at a crucial time in the development of this project. There are familial debts on my side of the correspondence as well. First, I must thank Marian Weston and Sue O’Neill for letting me use the Weston letters and for sharing their memories. My mother, Kath-arine Weston, collected secondary material and challenged me in valu-able discussions about the history of gender, family, and the West. Socorro Finn performed the initial transcriptions and consulted on the project as it evolved. Michael Cohen guided me with his knowl-edge of scholarly publishing, and Bridget Finn oﬀered support and con-structive criticism on drafts of the introduction. Other brave readers included Christopher Labarthe, Timothy Barnard, Robert Nelson, and Richard S. Lowry; their discussions of theories of early-twentieth-century masculinity and their enactments of more recent forms of male friendship were invaluable. A host of people at a range of institutions made this book possible. George McWhorter of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Collection at the Uni-versity of Louisville gave me productive leads and time-saving caveats, as he has done for virtually everyone who has written on Burroughs in the past few decades. Rick Paben of Paben Photography in Beatrice, Nebraska, provided excellent images from a pile of glass plate nega-tives. Bob Hartman at Culver Educational Foundation provided infor-

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