Harvey Teres

Renewing the left : politics, imagination, and the New York intellectuals

An examination of the literary radicalism among the New York intelligentsia from the 1930s to the 1960s. The book begins with the ideological underpinnings of the 1930s, giving particular attention to the Partisan Review. It further discusses the major cultural battles of the 1940s and 1950s, the failure to embrace postmodernism, and the problematic accommodation of women, African Americans and other marginal cultures.

Left intellectuals & popular culture in twentieth-century America

Since the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently criticized the mass arts, charging that entertainments ranging from popular theater, motion pictures, and dance halls to hit records, romance novels, and television are harmful to the public. This critique of popular culture continues today, with condemnations of television shows like NYPD Blue and increasing fears about the purported effects of rap or hip-hop music. In this sweeping historical study, Paul Gorman exposes the contradictory nature of this cultural critique. As Gorman shows, popular culture had faced growing denunciation in the 1890s, primarily from conservative writers dismayed at the state of modern values. But in the Progressive Era, intellectuals with liberal sympathies weighed in, complaining that modern entertainments were created to debase and exploit a passive, helpless public. Ironically, they thus initiated a strain of criticism in which the very intellectuals who championed democratic ideals portrayed citizens as dangerously manipulable victims and promoted patronizing plans for their rescue. |First published in 1986, Hearthside Cooking offers twenty-first-century cooks an enjoyable, informative resource for traditional cooking. It contains recipes for more than 250 historic dishes, including breads, soups, entrees, cakes, custards, sauces, and more. For each dish, Nancy Carter Crump provides the original recipe, followed by two sets of instructions--one for preparation over the open fire and a second making use of modern kitchen appliances. Crump also includes information about the men and women who wrote the original recipes, which she discovered by scouring old Virginia cookbooks, handwritten receipt books, and other primary sources in archival collections.

Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman, Modernism in the Magazines: An Introduction

Until the 1960s, modernism’s alleged elitism posed little problem to its legion of admirers, but since the 1960s that alleged elitism has been fairly regularly under attack. Despite these differences, few from either camp seemed interested in taking seriously modernism’s actual connection to the wider world, which included trafficking in middlebrow and doing business in the marketplace, the scourge of both the avant-garde and the literary academy. Modernism in the Magazines sets out to correct the record by proposing new research projects anchored in the study of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century magazines, the place where literary modernism began and where a relatively broad readership was introduced to innovative writing during the last moment in the English-speaking world when print was the dominant mode of communication. This broader view of modernism takes in what we have mistakenly been calling the ‘‘little magazines’’ all these decades (a ‘‘dream category’’ according to the authors) but also midsized mass circulation publications like McClure’s, not to mention the advertising world as well. McClure’s published Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, A. C. Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, and William Butler Yeats. Modernism’s connection to advertising was certainly more important than we have been led to believe by scholars with little interest in the commercial world; such neglect, or scorn, has been fueled by libraries that have omitted or cut out advertising pages from their periodical collection in order to conserve space or, ironically, to encourage rigorous inquiry. Too often the contextual study of literature has been rather too selective when considering which contexts are legitimate. The authors’ touchstone is Ezra Pound’s series of twenty informal articles written between August 1917 and January 1918 for The New Age, which