Romance and Realism —— A Study in English Bourgeois Literature

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ISBN: 9780691620817 出版年：2015 页码：148 Caudwell, Christopher Princeton University Press

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joined the communist party; he died in 1937 in the defense of madrid, leaving the manuscript of romance and realism unpublished.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, 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.