F.O. MATTHIESSEN AND THE POLITICS OF CRITICISM (WISCONSIN PROJECT ON AMERICAN WRITERS) by William E Cain ISBN 13: 9780299119140

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾Tall. 1988/1st Edition/288 Pages/Publisher's Shrinkwrap. This book deals with the politics of criticism.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr, 1988. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New. Type: Book 1988/1st Edition/288 Pages . This book deals with the politics of criticism. The book is in the original plastic shrinkwrap.

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1988. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 8.46x5.42x0.63 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. 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 War as revealed in his memoir, From the Heart of Europe. Cain draws connections between Matthiessen's criticism and the influence of significant political movements like the Popular Front of the 1930s, the Progressive Party, and Henry Wallace's campaign for the presidency in 1948. Analyzing specific texts by Thoreau, James, Dreiser, and Melville, he confronts the difficult and highly contested relationships between literary criticism and politics, scholarship and the public sphere, pedagogy and social… Read More

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