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LITERARY CRITICISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE
This is a list primarily of books of political, social and cultural criticism on imaginative literature, the novel 1858 Hippolyte Taine Balzac: A Critical Study ~1860 C. A. Sainte-Beuve Literary Criticism of Sainte-Beuve [a collection first published in 1971; edited and translated by E. R. Marks] 1863 Hippolyte Taine History of English Literature 1864 Matthew Arnold Essays Literary and Critical [published in periodicals, 1863-1864] [1906 edition] 1875 Leslie Stephen Hours in a Library 1883 William Morris On Art And Socialism [essays, 1877-1896; collected 1999] ["Art under Plutocracy"…]
1891 William Dean Howells Criticism and Fiction 1896 John Colin Dunlop History of Prose Fiction; Volumes I and II [revised by Henry Wilson, 1970] 1896 George Saintsbury A History of Nineteenth Century Literature 1897 Arlo Bates Talks on the Study of Literature 1897 H. D. Traill The New Fiction and Other Essays on Literary Subjects [reprint 1970] 1898 Leo Tolstoy What Is Art? [and Essays on Art; published together, 1962] 1900 George Saintsbury A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts to the Present Day [1902, 1904 - Vols. 2 & 3] 1903 Frank Norris The Responsibilities of the Novelist ["The Novel with a Purpose," "The Need of a Literary Conscience"…] 1906 Arlo Bates Talks on the Teaching of Literature 1908 George Saintsbury A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day 1914 Emma Goldman The Social Significance of the Modern Drama 1915 Upton Sinclair, Ed. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest [updated 1996] 1918 W. L. George Literary Chapters 1920 Randolph Bourne The History of a Literary Radical and Other Papers 1920 Georg Lukacs The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature ["The Novel as Polemic"…] 1921 Percy Lubbock The Craft of Fiction 1923 D. H. Lawrence Studies in Classic American Literature 1924 Floyd Dell Literature and the Machine Age 1924 Morris Edmund Speare The Political Novel: Its Development in England and America 1924 Leon Trotsky Literature and Revolution [“Pre-revolutionary Art,” “Revolutionary and Socialist Art”…] 1924 Edith Wharton The Writing of Fiction 1925 V. F. Calverton The Newer Spirit: A Sociological Criticism of Literature 1925 Alain Locke, Ed. The New Negro: An Interpretation [“The New Negro,” “Negro Art and American,” “The Negro in American Literature”…] 1925 John Macy The Story of the World’s Literature [revised, 1932] 1925 I. A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism [“Art, Play, and Civilisation”…] 1925 Upton Sinclair Mammonart 1925 Virginia Woolf The Common Reader: First Series [“Modern Fiction”…] 1926 W.E.B. DuBois The Oxford W.E.B DuBois Reader [1996] [1921-1926: “Negro Art,” “Negro Art and Literature,” “Criteria of Negro Art”…] 1926 Floyd Dell Intellectual Vagabondage [reprinted, 1990] 1927 E. M. Forster Aspects of the Novel 1927 Van Wyck Brooks, Ed., et al The American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature 1927 Vernon Louis Parrington Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920 1927 Upton Sinclair Money Writes 1928 Julien Benda The Betrayal [Treason] of the Intellectuals ["The Modern Perfecting of Political Passions," "Nature of Political Passions"…] 1928 Alfred Kreymborg, Ed., et al The Second American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature 1928 Rebecca West The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews 1928 T. K. Whipple Spokesmen [reprinted in 1963 with a foreword by Mark Schorer] 1930 Ransom, Tate, Warren, et al I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition by Twelve Southerners 1931 Edmund Wilson Axel’s Castle: A Study in Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 1932 V. F. Calverton The Liberation of American Literature ["The Puritan Myth," "From Revolution to Reaction," "…Nationalism," "Liberation"…] 1932 Virginia Woolf The Second Common Reader ["How Should One Read a Book?"…] 1933 Granville Hicks The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the Civil War 1934 John Dewey Art as Experience ["Art and Civilization"…] 1934 Max Eastman Art and the Life of Action (With Other Essays) ["The Artist and the Social Engineer"…] 1934 Max Eastman Artists in Uniform: A Study of Literature and Bureaucratism ["The New American Literature," "The Marxian Aesthetics"…] 1934 Henry James The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces 1935 Granville Hicks, Ed., et al Proletarian Literature in the United States ["Introduction," Joseph Freeman, "…Problems of Revolutionary Literature"…] 1936 T. S. Eliot Essays Ancient and Modern ["Religion and Literature," "Modern Education and the Classics"…] 1936 James T. Farrell A Note on Literary Criticism ["Literature and Propaganda," "Left-Wing Dualism," "Marx on the Relative Aesthetic"…] 1936 Allen Tate Reactionary Essays 1937 Mary M. Colum From These Roots: The Ideas that Have Made Modern Literature [reprinted, 1967] 1937 Morton D. Zabel, Ed. Literary Opinion in America; Volumes I and II. [revised, 1962] 1937 Herbert Read Art and Society 1938 Edmund Wilson The Triple Thinkers [revised, 1948; corrected, 1963] ["The Politics of Flaubert," "Historical Interpretation of Literature"…] 1939 Granville Hicks Figures of Transition: A Study of British Literature at the End of the 19th Century ["Socialism and William Morris"…] 1939 Bernard L. Smith Forces in American Criticism: A Study in the History of American Literary Thought ["The Rise of Critical Traditions"…] 1940 Roger Dataller The Plain Man and the Novel ["The Novel as Propaganda," "The Historical Novel," "The Social Novel"…] 1941 Joseph Warren Beach American Fiction, 1920-1940 ["John Steinbeck: Art and Propaganda"...] 1941 Kenneth Burke The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action [revised, 1973] ["The Nature of Art Under Capitalism"…] 1941 Van Wyck Brooks On Literature Today 1941 Sterling A. Brown, Ed., et al The Negro Caravan: Writings by American Negroes [new introduction by Lester, 1969] 1941 Edmund Wilson The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature [revised, 1952] 1942 Alfred Kazin On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature ["Criticism at the Poles"…] 1943 Herbert Read The Politics of the Unpolitical 1943 Edmund Wilson, Ed. The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It; Volumes I and II [revised, 1955] 1946 Erich Auerbach Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 1946 Alex Comfort Art and Social Responsibility: Lectures on the Ideology of Romanticism 1946 George Orwell Dickens, Dali and Others 1946 George Orwell "Why I Write," in A Collection of Essays, 1954 1946 Mark Schorer William Blake: The Politics of Vision 1947 E.B. Burgum The Novel and the World’s Dilemma 1947 Engels and Marx Literature and Art: Selections from Their Writings 1947 Maxwell Geismar Writers in Crisis: The American Novel, 1925-1940 1947 Stanley Edgar Hyman The Armed Vision: A Study in the Methods of Modern Literary Criticism [revised, 1955] ["The Ideal Critic," "The Actual Critic"…] 1947 Herbert Read The Grass Roots of Art: Lectures on Social Aspects of Art in an Industrial Age 1947 Herbert Read Education Through Art 1948 Walter Allen Writers on Writing ["The Ends and Uses of Poetry," "The Novelist's Responsibility"…] 1948 Alex Comfort The Novel and Our Time ["The Concept of Responsibility"…] 1948 F. R. Leavis The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad 1948 Mark Schorer, Ed., et al Criticism: The Foundations of Modern Literary Judgement 1949 Maxwell Geismar The Last of the Provincials: The American Novel, 1915-1925 1949 H. L. Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy [Essays, 1916-1948] "The Critical Process," etc. 1949 Edwin Muir Essays on Literature and Society [Enlarged and Revised, 1965] 1949 Wellek and Warren Theory of Literature ["Literature and Society"…] 1950 Gilbert Highet The Art of Teaching ["Authors and Artists"…] 1950 Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society ["The Meaning of a Literary Idea"…] 1952 Edmund Wilson A Literary Chronicle: 1920-1950 1952 Edmund Wilson The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the 1920s and 1930s ["Literary Class War," "American Critics, Left and Right"…] 1953 M. H. Abrams The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition 1953 Isaiah Berlin The Hedgehog and the Fox [Revised, 1978] 1953 Van Wyck Brooks The Writer in America 1953 Harold C. Gardiner, S.J. Norms for the Novel ["Literature as a Moral Activity, …as Fundamentally Religious, …as Inspiration"…] 1953 Maxwell Geismar Rebels and Ancestors: The American Novel, 1890-1915 ["Jack London"…] 1953 Gilbert Highet Juvenal the Satirist 1954 Walter Allen The English Novel: A Short Critical History 1955 James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son ["Everybody’s Protest Novel"…] 1955 Joseph L. Blotner The Political Novel 1956 J. M. Cohen A History of Western Literature 1956 Frank O’Connor The Mirror in the Roadway: A Study of the Modern Novel 1956 Walter B. Rideout The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of Literature and Society ["Class War"…] 1957 Richard Chase The American Novel and Its Tradition ["Norris and Naturalism"…] 1957 Northrop Frye Anatomy of Criticism 1957 Granville Hicks, Ed. The Living Novel: A Symposium [“Ralph Ellison: Society, Morality, and the Novel”…] 1957 Irving Howe Politics and the Novel [“The Idea of the Political Novel,” “Orwell: History as Nightmare”…] 1957 Wright Morris The Territory Ahead: Critical Interpretations in American Literature 1957 Philip Rahv, Ed. Literature in America: An Anthology of Literary Criticism 1957 Ian Watt The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, Fielding 1957 Rebecca West The Court and the Castle: A Study of the Interactions of Religious and Political Ideas in Imaginative Literature 1957 Wimsatt and Brooks Literary Criticism: A Short History [“The Real and the Social: Art as Propaganda”…] 1958 M. H. Abrams, Ed. Literature and Belief: English Institute Essays, 1957 1958 Malcolm Cowley, Ed. Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series 1958 Edmund Fuller Man in Modern Fiction: Some Minority Opinions on Contemporary American Writing 1958 Maxwell Geismar American Moderns: From Rebellion to Conformity [“Higher and Higher Criticism,” “The ‘End’ of Naturalism”…] 1959 Miriam Allott Novelists on the Novel [“No Politics?” (Stendhal), “The Writer’s Responsibility” (G. Eliot), “Ethics of the Novel” (various)…] 1959 William R. Mueller The Prophetic Voice in Modern Fiction: Major Writings of Joyce, Camus, Kafka, Silone, Faulkner, Green 1960 Leslie A. Fiedler Love and Death in the American Novel [revised 1966] 1961 Daniel Aaron Writers on the Left 1961 Adler and Cain, Eds. Imaginative Literature I: From Homer to Shakespeare 1961 Wayne C. Booth The Rhetoric of Fiction 1961 Ihab Hassan Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel 1961 Mary McCarthy On the Contrary [“Politics and the Social Scene,” “The Fact in Fiction”…] 1961 Rubin and Moore, Eds. The Idea of an American Novel 1962 Adler and Cain, Eds. Imaginative Literature II: From Cervantes to Dostoevsky 1962 Maxwell Geismar Henry James and the Jacobites 1962 Gregor and Nicholas The Moral and the Story 1962 Alvin B. Kernan Modern Satire [“Philip Wylie: A Specimen American Institution”…] 1962 Edwin Muir The Estate of Poetry [“The Public and the Poet,” “The Natural Estate,” “Criticism and the Poet”…] 1963 Donohue and Algren Conversations with Nelson Algren [“Where is the American Radical?” “The Open Society”…] 1963 Northrop Frye The Well-Tempered Critic 1963 Vernon Hall, Jr. A Short History of Literary Criticism 1963 Eloise K. Hay The Political Novels of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Study 1963 Frank O’Connor The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story 1963 Robert E. Spiller, Ed., et al Literary History of the United States: History [“Fiction and Social Debate,” “The Hope of Reform,” “Battle of the Books”…] 1964 Walter Allen Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel From the Twenties to Our Time 1964 Ralph Ellison Shadow and Act 1964 Alberto S. Florentino Literature and Society: A Symposium on the Relation of Literature to Social Change 1964 Northrop Frye The Educated Imagination 1964 Michael Millgate American Social Fiction: James to Cozzens 1964 R. H. Tawney The Radical Tradition: Twelve Essays on Politics, Education, Literature [“Social History and Literature”…] 1966 Joseph L. Blotner The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960 [“The Novel of the Future,” “The Role of Woman,” “American Fascism”…] 1966 Gordon Milne The American Political Novel 1966 Scholes and Kellogg The Nature of Narrative 1967 Louis Kampf On Modernism: The Prospects for Literature and Freedom 1967 Connor Cruise O’Brien Writers and Politics: Essays and Criticisms 1967 Herbert Read Art and Alienation: The Role of the Artist in Society [“The Function of the Arts in Contemporary Society,” “Van Gogh…”…] 1967 Louis D. Rubin The Teller in the Tale 1967 George Steiner Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman [“Marxism and Literature”…] 1968 Jose Ortega Y. Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature 1968 Arthur Pollard Anthony Trollope’s Political Novels 1968 Mark Schorer The World We Imagine: Selected Essays 1969 Joseph North The New Masses: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties [“The Writer and Society,” “Writing and War”…] 1969 Flannery O’Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose [“The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” “Novelist and Believer”…] 1969 Kenneth Rexroth Classics Revisited 1970 Maxwell Geismar Mark Twain: An American Prophet [“The Enraged Radical”…] 1970 Kampf and Lauter, Eds. The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English 1970 George Perkins, Ed. The Theory of the American Novel [“Frank Norris: The Novel with a Purpose”…] 1970 Kenneth Rexroth The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World |