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Romance and Realism - A Study in English Bourgeois Literature (Paperback)
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Romance and Realism - A Study in English Bourgeois Literature (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John
Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an
important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author of Illusion
and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture. In the mid-thirties
Caudwell joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense
of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism
unpublished. This short but comprehensive book is a Marxist
interpretation of English literature from Shakespeare to Spender.
The author follows the course of English history-the end of
feudalism, the age of exploration, the rise of the common man,
industrialization, science- producing his particular synthesis of
literature as a subjective experience (romance) and as a response
to society (realism). The major writers and movements of English
literature are discussed, often with brilliant observations.
Romance and Realism is important as Marxist criticism, as a
reflection of the acrid definitions of the writers of the thirties
(including Auden, Orwell, C. Day Lewis), and as the highly personal
view of a talented critic. Originally published in 1971. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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