Cosmopolitan visions Terry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review--often
considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America--during its …

There was no shortage of events in the nineteenth century which dragged American writers
to the centre stage of political controversy. The abolition of slavery and the rise of American …

Wurr ITHIN the last several decades a dramatic reorientation has taken place in
interpretation of the Revolutionary and early national periods. This new perspective is the …

This is a book about intellectuals. More specifically, it is a book about the way certain
American writers in the 1940s and 1950s interpreted and tried to cope with the major events …

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall
Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of …

When Parrington's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of American ideas was first published,
Henry Seidel Canby wrote," This is a work of the first importance, lucid, comprehensive …

The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850, was issued in 1931 by
another publisher, and is reissued now without change, under our imprint. The second …

" The Sixties." The powerful images conveyed by those two words have become an enduring
part of American cultural and political history. But where did Sixties radicalism come from …

This study of the New York Intellectuals uses original sources to reconstruct their history
during the period of their greatest influence, the 1940s and 1950s. It takes as its major theme …

William Tudor, Willard Phillips, and Richard Henry Dana were not their fathers' Federalists.
When these young New England intellectuals and their contemporaries attempted to carve …