2. Scott's piece argues that both patriarchy & adulthood are in a linked crisis, under siege from a rising feminist culture.
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13. Lewis criticized writers like Hemingway and Gertrude Stein for alleged childish baby writing that eschewed executive will & intelligence
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14. Lewis found a regrettable solution to the crisis of manhood/adulthood: Hitler.
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@HeerJeet William Empson traced this fear of infantilization to the Romantic era (I blogged about it eons ago: http://letsreadandfindout.blogspot.com/2011/03/notes-on-twee-returns.html …) -
@HeerJeet "Before the Romantic Revival the possibilities of not growing up had never been exploited so far as to become a subject…"
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