Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of Literature and Society (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Rideout, Walter B
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	11/12/1992
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of current interest in revolutionary Marxism. Also discussed are the reasons why literary critics of the following decades dismissed these writings as bizarre and improbable and questioned how the writers could have so badly miscalculated the future.