1 option
A voice still heard : selected essays of Irving Howe / edited by Nina Howe with the assistance of Nicholas Howe Bukowski ; foreword by Morris Dickstein.
Van Pelt Library PS29.H68 V65 2014
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, Irving, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Howe, Irving.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- United States.
- History.
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 380 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.
- Summary:
- Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Nation. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of Howe's enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, Judaism, and the tumults of American society.
- Contents:
- The 1950s
- This Age of Conformity (1954) 3
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs / Sarah Orne Jewett (1954) Jewett, Sarah Orne, (1954) 26
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud (1958) 29
- The 1960s
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness (1963) 35
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep (1964) 41
- New Styles in "Leftism" (1965) 46
- George Orwell: "As the Bones Know" (1968) 73
- The New York Intellectuals (1969) 83
- The 1970s
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1970) 127
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both (1971) 139
- The City in Literature (1971) 161
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas (1976) 178
- Strangers (1977) 182
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent (1979) 198
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse (1979) 213
- The 1980s
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai (1982) 235
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous (1985) 241
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? (1985) 249
- Writing and the Holocaust (1986) 277
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times (1986) 299
- The 1990s
- Two Cheers for Utopia (1993) 315
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory (1993) 320
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf (1994) 335
- Dickens: Three Notes (1994) 341
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die? (1994) 355
- Personal Reflections
- Reflection on the Death of My Father (1982) 363
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis (1983) 366.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-380).
- ISBN:
- 0300203667
- 9780300203660
- OCLC:
- 875644359
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.