The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s - Hardcover

Wald, Alan M.

 
9780807817162: The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0807817163 ISBN 13: 9780807817162
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1987

Synopsis

In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the ""New York Intellectuals"" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement. Wald presents an absorbing account of this misunderstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist intellectual tradition in the United States.

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About the Author

Alan M. Wald is the H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan and is the recipient of the Mary C. Turpie Prize of the American Studies Association.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
1987
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807817163
ISBN 13 
9780807817162
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
456

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