This first biography of V.F. Calverton gives an intellectual
history of the American radical movement from 1920 to 1940 and
shows how he and his Modern Quarterly led the forefront in wars of
ideas about sex, lit, and party. This lively study of the career
and times of Calverton examines basic questions about the
relationships between literature and politics, feminist agendas,
and political theory in ways that are still relevant. Students of
political thought, American history, and American literature will
find this biography a provocative one that brings the period alive
in new ways. A short introduction shows how Calverton yearned to be
an American Lenin-Cassanova-Pericles. Philip Abbott then follows
Calverton's participation in a series of intellectual wars fought
in the 1920s and the 1930s. Thus does Abbott reassess American
radicalism and the development of American bohemia and socialism.
Calverton was the central figure in two efforts to found an
American radical republic, both of which were rejected by his
colleagues--famous writers and thinkers of his time. One attempt
sought to create a republic of being in which participants explored
the capacities of sexual liberation as an agent for change. Another
involved the creation of a republic of doing in which radical
citizens acted out revolutionary roles. This biography of a
neglected theorist reevaluates radical projects in politics,
psychology, and the arts in America in a seminal period in their
development.
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