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 …

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 …

First published in 1976, George H. Nash's celebrated history of the postwar conservative
intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition …

Including nineteen evocative photographs, It Had to Be Revolution documents the early
years of the American and international left from the perspective of a man who was as …

In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers-
Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate-in order to examine the …

" 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 …

The changing market society of the nineteenth century had a deep impact on American
writers and their works. The writers responded with important insights into the alienation …

In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of
antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American …