Matthiessen/Politics of Criticism

by William E. Cain

Book Overview

F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America's leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with remain ours today. William E. Cain studies Matthiessen's career with careful attention to biographical, institutional, literary, and political contexts. He considers Matthiessen's many reviews and essays on literature and deals sympathetically, but critically, with Matthiessen's attitudes toward the Cold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299119149
• ISBN13: 9780299119140
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"