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050	0	0	_aPR 401 _b.S7 1970
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100	1		_aCaudwell, Christopher, _d1907-1937 _95324 _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRomance and realism : _ba study in English bourgeois literature / _cby Christopher Caudwell ; edited by Samuel Hynes.
260			_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc1970.
300			_a144 pages ; _c23 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
500			_aThis item does not include a table of contents.
520			_a"Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christophe St. John Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author or 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joined the Communist Party: he died in 1937 in the defense of Madrid, leaving the Manuscript of Romance and Realism unpublished.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- from the end of feudalism through 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. Samuel Hynes, author of The Edwardian Turn of Mind, has written a critical introduction about this essay and Caudwell's place in English letters." --From the dust jacket.
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650		0	_aEnglish literature _xHistory and criticism. _94163
650		0	_aMiddle class in literature. _95325
650		0	_aRealism in literature. _95326
650		0	_aRomanticism _zEngland. _95327
700	1		_aHynes, Samuel _eauthor of forward _eeditor _95328
856	4	1	_uhttps://archive.org/details/romancerealismst0000caud _zInternet_OpenLibrary
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