Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America
Gilbert uses the pages of the Partisan Review--the foremost periodical of America's literary left--to trace the development of literary radicalism from its pre-World War I Bohemian birth through the Depression and the Red Decade to the return to traditional values during Cold War.

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Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America
Gilbert uses the pages of the Partisan Review--the foremost periodical of America's literary left--to trace the development of literary radicalism from its pre-World War I Bohemian birth through the Depression and the Red Decade to the return to traditional values during Cold War.

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Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America

Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America

by James Gilbert
Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America

Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America

by James Gilbert

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Overview

Gilbert uses the pages of the Partisan Review--the foremost periodical of America's literary left--to trace the development of literary radicalism from its pre-World War I Bohemian birth through the Depression and the Red Decade to the return to traditional values during Cold War.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231082556
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 03/18/1993
Series: Morningside Books
Pages: 303
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

James B. Gilbert is professor of history at the University of Maryland and taught at Amsterdam University and the University of Paris. He has written numerous books, including Another Chance: America After World War II, The Pursuit of Liberty, and Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias in the 1890's, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1991.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Morningside Edition
Introduction
The New Paganism
Three Bohemias
Revolution and Renaissance
The First Partisan Review
The New Generation
Part I: The Intellectual as Revolutionary
Part II: Kulturbolschewismus: The Middlebrow Counterrevolution
The Politics of Collision
The Failure of Nerve
Bibliographic Essay
Index
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