Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America

by James B. Gilbert

As the primary source for important political and literary ideas from its founding in 1934 until the post-World War II era, the Partisan Review is a useful guide to the changing nature of 20th-century American socialism. James Gilbert uses the Partisan Review, Masses and Seven Arts to show how avant-garde literature became identified with radical politics and art, and how literary radicalism matured beyond the confines of Marxist philosophy and literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023108255X
• ISBN13: 9780231082556
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher