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The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain

The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain


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In this detailed study of literary culture in the inter-war period, Jason Harding examines the standing of T. S. Eliot's journal the Criterion in relation to other literary periodicals and, beyond that, to the larger cultural networks of the time. The Criterion may at first sight seem a well-studied publication, often dismissed as predictably conservative, even proto-Fascist. However, through his examination of insufficiently known archive material and interviews with living witnesses to the period, Harding significantly alters our understanding of the journal and of Eliot's role as editor. More than that, by carefully resituating the journal in its relations - of both competition and co-operation - with a range of other literary periodicals (for the most part little-studied themselves), he shows himself an authoritative and discriminating guide to the often complex networks within which Eliot worked. The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain defends the journal against charges of Fascism and anti-Semitism: it is an invaluable book for scholars of Eliot and an original and incisive exploration of difficult areas of literary-cultural exchange.

Table of Contents:
Abbreviations Introduction I: Periodical Networks 1: The Adelphi: The Reaction against Romanticism 2: The Calendar: Standards of Criticism 3: Scrutiny: Critics from Cambridge 4: New Verse: An Oxford Clique II: The Politics of Book Reviewing 5: Herbert Read: Anarchist Aide-de-Camp 6: Bonamy Dobree: Agreeable Sceptic 7: Montgomery Belgion: A Useful Irritant 8: Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith: New Signatures III: Cultural Politics 9: A Religio-Political Organ 10: Defence of the West Afterword Select Bibliography Index

Review :
`Jason Harding's assiduously researched study of [The Criterion] is excellent at nipping behind its tone of Olympian hauteur to reveal the sectarian, manipulative, suavely malicious politics of the literary marketplace that lie behind it.' Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books `Harding has scoured the sources and offers a rich picture of the era's literary history. . . . a masterful work of scholarship on Eliot and modernism' Virginia Quarterly Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199247172
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain
  • Width: 146 mm
  • ISBN-10: 019924717X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Apr 2002
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 268
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 413 gr


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