Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford

by Casey Nelson Blake

Book Overview

The "Young American" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807842966
• ISBN13: 9780807842966
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"