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Christopher Caudwell

Romance and Realism

A Study in English Bourgeois Literature

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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joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism unpublished.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, industrializatio… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hynes, Samuel (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-62081-7
  • EAN: 9780691620817
  • Produktnummer: 17637384
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 150 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.2 cm

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Christopher Caudwell (1907-1937) was the pen-name of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a British Marxist poet, writer and thinker. He joined the Communist Party in 1935, and soon became a dedicated grassroots activist, continuing his writing, even though none of his Marxist works were printed during his lifetime. In 1936, he left for Spain to join the International Brigades in the anti-fascist struggle against Franco. He was killed in the valley of Jarama, February 12th 1937, during his first day of battle. He is the author of the writings compiled in Culture as Politics (Pluto, 2017).

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