See also:
by Tony Christini
1960 Leslie A. Fiedler Love and Death in the American Novel [revised 1966]
1961 Daniel Aaron Writers on the Left
1961 Adler and Cain, Eds. Imaginative Literature I: From Homer to Shakespeare
1961 Wayne C. Booth The Rhetoric of Fiction
1961 Ihab Hassan Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel
1961 Mary McCarthy On the Contrary [“Politics and the Social Scene,” “The Fact in Fiction”…]
1961 Rubin and Moore, Eds. The Idea of an American Novel
1962 Adler and Cain, Eds. Imaginative Literature II: From Cervantes to Dostoevsky
1962 Maxwell Geismar Henry James and the Jacobites
1962 Gregor and Nicholas The Moral and the Story
1962 Alvin B. Kernan Modern Satire [“Philip Wylie: A Specimen American Institution”…]
1962 Edwin Muir The Estate of Poetry [“The Public and the Poet,” “The Natural Estate,” “Criticism and the Poet”…]
1963 Donohue and Algren Conversations with Nelson Algren [“Where is the American Radical?” “The Open Society”…]
1963 Northrop Frye The Well-Tempered Critic
1963 Vernon Hall, Jr. A Short History of Literary Criticism
1963 Eloise K. Hay The Political Novels of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Study
1963 Frank O’Connor The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story
1963 Robert E. Spiller, Ed., et al Literary History of the United States: History [“Fiction and Social Debate,” “The Hope of Reform,” “Battle of the Books”…]
1964 Walter Allen Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel From the Twenties to Our Time
1964 Ralph Ellison Shadow and Act
1964 Alberto S. Florentino Literature and Society: A Symposium on the Relation of Literature to Social Change
1964 Northrop Frye The Educated Imagination
1964 Michael Millgate American Social Fiction: James to Cozzens
1964 R. H. Tawney The Radical Tradition: Twelve Essays on Politics, Education, Literature [“Social History and Literature”…]
1966 Joseph L. Blotner The Modern American Political Novel: 1900-1960 [“The Novel of the Future,” “The Role of Woman,” “American Fascism”…]
1966 Gordon Milne The American Political Novel
1966 Scholes and Kellogg The Nature of Narrative
1967 Louis Kampf On Modernism: The Prospects for Literature and Freedom
1967 Connor Cruise O’Brien Writers and Politics: Essays and Criticisms
1967 Herbert Read Art and Alienation: The Role of the Artist in Society [“The Function of the Arts in Contemporary Society,” “Van Gogh…”…]
1967 Louis D. Rubin The Teller in the Tale
1967 George Steiner Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman [“Marxism and Literature”…]
1968 Jose Ortega Y. Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature
1968 Arthur Pollard Anthony Trollope’s Political Novels
1968 Mark Schorer The World We Imagine: Selected Essays
1969 Joseph North The New Masses: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties [“The Writer and Society,” “Writing and War”…]
1969 Flannery O’Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose [“The Nature and Aim of Fiction,” “Novelist and Believer”…]
1969 Kenneth Rexroth Classics Revisited
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1970 Maxwell Geismar Mark Twain: An American Prophet [“The Enraged Radical”…]
1970 Kampf and Lauter, Eds. The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English
1970 George Perkins, Ed. The Theory of the American Novel [“Frank Norris: The Novel with a Purpose”…]
1970 Kenneth Rexroth The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World
1970 Raymond Williams The English Novel: From Dickens to Lawrence
1971 Hazard Adams, Ed. Critical Theory Since Plato
1971 Sheila Delany, Ed. Counter-Tradition: The Literature of Dissent and Alternatives
1971 Jonah Raskin The Mythology of Imperialism [“Chaos: The Culture of Imperialism,” “Portrait of the Artist as Imperialist”…]
1971 Judy Kay Ferguson Salinas Social Reform in Selected Works of Carlos Fuentes
1971 Elaine Showalter Women’s Liberation and Literature
1972 David Lodge Twentieth Century Literary Criticism [“Politics and the English Language” (Orwell), “Why Write?” (Sartre)…]
1972 Norman Philbrick, Ed. Trumpets Sounding: Propaganda Plays Of The American Revolution
1973 Richard Kostelanetz The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America
1974 Jo David Bellamy The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers
1974 David Craig The Real Foundations: Literature and Social Change
1974 Greenberg and Warrick Political Science Fiction: An Introductory Reader
1974 John Halperin, Ed. The Theory of the Novel: New Essays
1975 Ian Boyd The Novels Of G.K. Chesterton: A Study In Art And Propaganda
1975 Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory [“Ideology and Literary Form,” “Marxism and Aesthetic Value”…]
1975 Lucien Goldmann Towards a Sociology of the Novel [English translation]
1975 Phillip Roth Reading Myself and Others [expanded, 2001] [“Writing American Fiction”…]
1976 Terry Eagleton Marxism and Literary Criticism [“The Writer and Commitment,” “The Author as Producer”…]
1976 Gilbert Highet The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning
1976 Richard Ohmann English in American: A Radical View of the Profession [updated 1996] [“The Politics of Knowledge: A Polemic”…]
1976 Norman Rudich Weapons of Criticism: Marxism in America and the Literary Tradition
1976 David C. Stineback Shifting World: Social Change and Nostalgia in the American Novel
1976 Mas’ud Zavarzadeh The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel
1977 Mary Lee Bundy Guide to the Literature of Social Change: Volume 1
1977 Bob Dixon Catching Them Young 1: Sex, Race and Class in Children’s Fiction
1977 Bob Dixon Catching Them Young 2: Political Ideas in Children’s Fiction
1977 Herbert Marcuse The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
1977 Mark Spilka Towards a Poetics of Fiction: Essays from Novel—A Forum on Fiction, 1967-1976
1977 Diana Trilling We Must March My Darlings
1977 Raymond Williams Marxism and Literature
1978 John Colmer Coleridge to Catch-22: Images of Society [“Utopian Fanatasy,” “Protest and Anti-War Literature”…]
1978 John Gardner On Moral Fiction
1978 Josephine Hendin Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945
1978 Tillie Olsen Silences [“Rebecca Harding Davis”…]
1978 Philip Rahv Essays on Literature and Politics, 1932-1972
1978 Edward Said Orientalism
1978 David Smith Socialist Propaganda In The Twentieth-Century Novel
1978 Eudora Welty The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews [“Must the Novelist Crusade?”]
1979 Johnson and Johnson Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century
1979 Raghuvir Sinah Social Change in Contemporary Literature
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1980 Frank Lentricchia After the New Criticism
1980/85 Ira A. Levine Left-Wing Dramatic Theory in the American Theatre
1980 John Lucas The Literature of Change: Studies in the Nineteenth Century Provincial Novel
1980 Mary McCarthy Ideas and the Novel
1981 M. M. Bakhtin The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays [English translation] [ “Discourse in the Novel”…]
1981 Rosemary Jackson Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
1982 Margaret Atwood Second Words: Selected Critical Prose [“Amnesty International: An Address”…]
1983 Malcolm Bradbury The Modern American Novel [revised edition, 1992: novels 1890-1990s]
1983 Terry Eagleton Literary Theory: An Introduction [“Conclusion: Political Criticism”…”]
1983 A. P. Foulkes Literature And Propaganda [“What is Propaganda?” “…Literary Communication,” “Fiction and Reality”…]
1983 John J. Michalczyk Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film
1983 Nicholas Pronay, Ed. Propaganda, Politics And Film, 1918-45
1983 Susan Rubin Suleiman Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre
1983 Janet Todd, Ed. Women Writers Talking
1984 Robert Alter Motives for Fiction [“…American Political Novel,” “History…New American Novel,” “Literature and Ideology in the Thirties”…]
1984 Madeline Moore The Short Season Between Two Silences: The Mystical and the Political in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
1984 Christopher Pawling Popular Fiction and Social Change
1984 Charles Ruas Conversations with American Writers
1984 H. Trivedi American Political Novel
1984 Michael Wilding Political Fictions [“1984: Rewriting the Future,” “News From Nowhere,” “The Iron Heel,” “…Huckleberry Finn”…]
1985 Robert Boyers Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 [“Toward a Reading of Political Novels”…]
1985 Malcolm Cowley The Flower and the Leaf: A Contemporary Record of American Writing Since 1941
1985 Wallace Gray Homer to Joyce: Interpretations of the Classic Works of Western Literature
1985 Mary McCarthy Occasional Prose [“Politics and the Novel,” “ ‘Democracy’ ”…]
1985 Judith Newton Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class, and Race in Literature and Culture
1985 Emmanuel Ngara Art And Ideology In The African Novel: A Study Of The Influence Of Marxism On African Writing
1985 Mona Scheuermann Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
1985 Elaine Showalter, Ed. The New Feminist Criticism: …Women, Literature, Theory [“…Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Politics of Literary History”…]
1985 Michael Spindler American Literature and Social Change: William Dean Howells to Arthur Miller
1986 Ralph Ellison Going to the Territory
1986 Barbara Foley Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
1986 Hobbs and Woodard, Eds. Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Art and Social Change
1986 Milan Kundera The Art of the Novel
1986 Russell Reising The Unusable Past: Theory and Study of American Literature [“The Apolitical Unconscious: Leslie Fiedler”…]
1986 Judi M. Roller The Politics of the Feminist Novel
1986 Thomas Daniel Young, Ed. Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1987 Nancy Armstrong Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
1987 Miklόs Haraszti The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism
1987 Tom Kemme Political Fiction, The Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury
1987 Richard Ohmann The Politics of Letters
1987 Irme Salusinszky Criticism in Society: Interviews with Derrida, Frye, Bloom, Hartman, Kermode, Said, Johnson, Lentricchia, Miller
1988 K. E. Agovi Novels of Social Change
1988 Rosemarie Bodenheimer The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction
1988 Mary Chamberlain, Ed. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers
1988 Terrence Des Pres Praises and Dispraises: Poetry and Politics, the 20th Century [“Political Intrusion”…]
1988 Emory Elliott, Ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States
1988 Nadine Gordimer The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places
1988 Hoffman and Murphy, Eds. Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
1988 Amy Kaplan The Social Construction of American Realism
1988 Vincent B. Leitch American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties [“Leftist Criticism From the 1960s to the 1980s”…]
1988 J. Michael Lennon Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988 David Lodge, Ed. Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader [updated 2000, with Nigel Wood]
1988 George Plimpton, Ed. Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews [revised edition, 1998]
1988 Yanarella and Sigelman Political Mythology and Popular Fiction
1989 Peter Buitenhuis The Great War Of Words: British, American, And Canadian Propaganda And Fiction, 1914-1933
1989 Cathy N. Davidson, Ed. Reading in American: Literature and Social History
1989 Rita Felski Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change
1989 Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier Interviews with Latin American Writers
1989 Linda Hutcheon The Politics of Postmodernism
1989 Kenneth Rexroth More Classics Revisited
1989 John Rodden The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of “St. George” Orwell
1989 Standley and Pratt, Eds. Conversations with James Baldwin
1989 D. J. Taylor A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s [“Writers, Politics and Society,” “Outside the Whale”…]
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Bibliography – 1800s to 2003
Critical Excerpts – 1883 to 2003
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