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Description for Floyd Dell
hardcover. The first full-length biography of the celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses), poet, and playwright who was both central to radical culture in the early 20th century and profoundly skeptical of it. "Intelligent, sympathetic..a superb life of the sweetest singer of the 'lyrical left.'"-William L. O'Neill. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 644.
Among the American avant-garde of the early twentieth century, Floyd Dell played a distinctive role. A boy from the Midwest who rose to influence in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and in the heyday of Greenwich Village radicalism, he became a celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses), poet, and playwright. Dell was also a notorious bohemian, proponent of free love, and champion of feminism, progressive education, socialism, and Freudianism. His love affairs earned him almost as much notoriety as his writings. His friends and colleagues included many of the great figures of the era: radical journalists John Reed and Max ... Read more
Among the American avant-garde of the early twentieth century, Floyd Dell played a distinctive role. A boy from the Midwest who rose to influence in the Chicago Literary Renaissance and in the heyday of Greenwich Village radicalism, he became a celebrated novelist, critic, editor (of The Masses), poet, and playwright. Dell was also a notorious bohemian, proponent of free love, and champion of feminism, progressive education, socialism, and Freudianism. His love affairs earned him almost as much notoriety as his writings. His friends and colleagues included many of the great figures of the era: radical journalists John Reed and Max ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566630597
SKU
V9781566630597
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About Douglas Clayton
Douglas Clayton has taught literature at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is now humanities editor at the University of Nebraska Press.
Reviews for Floyd Dell
Revealing, fascinating...there is a sense of the real past here. More important, there is a real sense of the present revealed to us in that past.
Dan Jaffe
American Studies
This is sure to become the standard for any work on a classic American radical!
Elliott Shore
Journal of American History
Dell deserves the ... Read more
Dan Jaffe
American Studies
This is sure to become the standard for any work on a classic American radical!
Elliott Shore
Journal of American History
Dell deserves the ... Read more