History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987

by Frank Kermode

Book Overview

Frank Kermode here returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we seem to have forgotten how urgent and powerful this literature was during a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. First examining bourgeois left-wing writing in England in the 1930s and, to a lesser extent, in the United States, Kermode explores the causes of literary neglect and the nature of the bond between a book and its historical context. He goes on to discuss...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198123817
• ISBN13: 9780198123811
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.8"