Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left
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"Reed succeeds admirably in recapturing Cantwell as both a complex political thinker and literary figure for the revisionist canon. . . . A timely invitation to serious academic engagement in our contemporary political crisis."
» John Trombold, ALH Online Review
Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left is the first full critical study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Washington Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780295993621
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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"Reed succeeds admirably in recapturing Cantwell as both a complex political thinker and literary figure for the revisionist canon. . . . A timely invitation to serious academic engagement in our contemporary political crisis."
» John Trombold, ALH Online Review
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"This critical study dusts off the largely forgotten work and career of Cantwell. . . . T.V. Reed has performed a service in bringing Robert Cantwell and the topic of proletarian fiction back to the fore."
» Barbara McMichael, The Seattle Times
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"A concise literary biography of “proletarian” novelist Robert Cantwell adds significantly to the revisionist studies of early and mid–twentieth-century cultural radicalism… Reed’s valuable insight into considerations of place might be applied to avoid overgeneralizations about the Communist Party as a homogeneous entity—even when it sought to present itself as such."
» Joel Wendland, American Studies Journal
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"Reed's complex and multilayered book on Cantwell will help rescue The Land of Plenty from oblivion. It is also a significant contribution to the project of reconsidering the American literary left of the 1930s. . . . Progressives from our own time have much to learn from that era and from this book."
» Priscilla Long, H-Net Reviews