Paul Elmer More: Literary Criticism as the History of Ideas

by Stephen L. Tanner

Paul Elmer More was one of the leaders of the New Humanism, the most important critical movement in the United States during the first decades of this century. It was a wide-ranging moral approach to literary and cultural criticism that laid the intellectual foundation for American conservatism. Though eclipsed in the realm of critical fashions by more exclusively aesthetic approaches, the moral approach retains its appeal among general readers, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887065600
• ISBN13: 9780887065606
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"