Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature

by Christopher Caudwell

Book Overview

Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author of Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture . In the mid-thirties Caudwell joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism unpublished. This short but comprehensive book is a Marxist interpretation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691061955
• ISBN13: 9780691061955
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"