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Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left : A Northwest Writer Reworks American Fiction /
"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. Regarded by F. Scott Fit...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Rewriting the Left: Critical Contexts; Chapter 2. Mill Towns, Blue Collar Work, and Literary Ambitions: Cantwell's Childhood and Adolescence; Chapter 3. A Student of Karl Marx and Henry James: Cantwell and the Literary Wars of the Early 1930s; Chapter 4. A Portrait of the Artist as Propagandist: Cantwell as Proletarian Novelist; Chapter 5. The Revolutionist Meets the Capitalist: Cantwell as Biographer and Nonfiction Novelist; Chapter 6. Time, Doubt, and the Popular Front: Cantwell and the Ideological Storms of the Late 1930s.
- Chapter 7. Breaking Down, Moving On, Looking Back: Cantwell in the Wake of the 1930sConclusion: Lessons, Legacies, Literary Lefts: Cantwell and the Reworking of American Literature; Afterword: A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be; Notes; Bibliography; Index.