In 1925, Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, fulfilled a long-held dream by establishing a magazine at the institution founded by Thomas Jefferson just over one hundred years earlier. Not only did Alderman initiate publication of the Virginia Quarterly Review, he contributed an essay to its inaugural issue.
Appearing as the first selection in this new volume of nonfiction from the VQR, Alderman's -Edgar Allan Poe and the University of Virginia- reflects the rare combination of literary sensibility and immersion in the political and social issues of the...
In 1925, Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, fulfilled a long-held dream by establishing a magazine at the institution foun...
