Title Brother men : the correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston / edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, portraits Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Introduction -- Note on the text -- Correspondence -- Notes Summary Brother Menis 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 Burroughsrsquo;s decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volumersquo;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 Burroughsrsquo;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 Menincludes 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 Burroughsrsquo;s broad engagement with modern culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 -- Correspondence Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 -- Friends and associates Weston, Herbert T. -- Correspondence SUBJECT Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950. fast (OCoLC)fst00052765 Weston, Herbert T. fast (OCoLC)fst01596863 Burroughs, Edgar Rice. swd Weston, Herbert T. swd Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Friendship. Novelists, American. Genre/Form Personal correspondence. Form Electronic book Author Weston, Herbert T., author. Cohen, Matt, 1970- editor, writer of introduction. ISBN 9780822386469 0822386461 1283024004 9781283024006 9786613024008 6613024007

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