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LITERARY CRITICISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE - BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTENTS

Below are the bibliography contents and the beginning of the listing primarily of books of political, social and cultural
criticism on imaginative
literature, the novel in particular - some landmarks and assorted works, mainly American
and
English - a truncated and otherwise incomplete chronology extending in its entirety from the 1800s to today. A few
texts on novel form and technique are also included. The list here covers the time period up 1929. Preceding that list
are select works from the full list. 
See links for excerpts. See here for more information about the bibliography and
excerpts. See
"Bibliographies, Particular"
for a breakdown of the general bibliography into listings organized by title
and genre.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTENTS
   select works (this page)
   1800s to 1929 (this page)

   
1930-1959
  
1960-1989
  
1990-today 
  
1800s-today (entire)

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POLITICAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL CRITICISM ON IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE: 1800s-1929

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]


1930-1959

 
 

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