
The Century's Midnight
Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War
Clive Bush(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 12. November 2010
Book
Hardback
594 pages
978-1-906165-25-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Century's Midnight is an exploration of the literary and political relationships between a number of ideologically sophisticated American and European writers during a mid-twentieth century dominated by the Second World War. Clive Bush offers an account of an intelligent and diverse community of people of good will, transcending national, ideological and cultural barriers. Although structured around five central figures - the novelist Victor Serge, the editors Dwight Macdonald and Dorothy Norman, the cultural critic Lewis Mumford and the poet Muriel Rukeyser - the book examines a wealth of European and American writers including Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Walter Benjamin, John Dos Passos, André Gide, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, George Orwell, Boris Pilniak, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ignacio Silone and Richard Wright.
The book's central theme relates politics and literature to time and narrative. The author argues that knowledge of the writers of this period is of inestimable value in attempting to understand our contemporary world.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 ill.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1194 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906165-25-3 (9781906165253)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0055-0
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Clive Bush
The Century's Midnight
Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War
E-Book
04/2011
170th Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€108.69
Available for download
Person
Clive Bush is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at King's College London. He pioneered the teaching of American Studies at the University of Warwick from 1966 to 1990. His books include Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein (1991) and Holding the Line: Selected Essays in American Literature and Culture (Peter Lang, 2009).
Content
Contents: 'It is Dead and it is Not Dead': Time and Testimony in Victor Serge - Posts of the Good: Dwight Macdonald's
politics
- 'My Dear Plutocratic but Lovely Friend': Dorothy Norman and
TWICE A YEAR
- Lewis Mumford: Remaining Present in 'the Ringing Grooves of Time' - The Art of Memory: Muriel Rukeyser and the Turning World.