1st Edition

Worlds of Irving Howe The Critical Legacy

By John Rodden Copyright 2005
390 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

390 Pages
by Routledge

The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howe's work written by some of the most prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century, among them Lionel... Read more
Note on Annotations Chronology Introduction: The Worlds of Irving Howe, by John Rodden I. Labor Historian and Literary Biographer-Critic The UAW and Walter Reuther (1949) Sherwood Anderson (1951) William Faulkner (1952) II. Editor-Translator, Literary Essayist, and Political Historian A Treasury of Yiddish Stories (1954) Politics and the Novel (1957) The American Communist Party (1958) Modern Literary Criticism (1959) A World More Attractive (1964) III. Polemicist and Cultural Diagnostician Steady Work (1966) The Radical Imagination (1967) Thomas Hardy (1967) Decline of the New (1970) The Seventies (1973) IV. Scholar-Critic and Autobiographer World of Our Fathers (1976) Leon Trotsky (1978) Celebrations and Attacks (1979) V. Elegist and Memoirist A Margin of Hope (1982) Socialism and America (1985) The American Newness (1986) Selected Writings, 1950 - 1990 (1990) VI. Posthumous Celebrations and Attacks Obituaries and Memorials (1993) Index About the Editor

Biography

John Rodden