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Steven jyxarcus on Kssays Literature and Soeiety wide-ranging collection In this of essays the distinguished literary and social critic Steven Marcus ex- plores the complex relationship be- tween literature and society and the ways in which the former often provides insights into the latter. Among his subjects are such writers Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, as Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, and Dashiell “An Hammett, and such topics as Reviewer,” “The Limits of Ideal Literary History,” and “Madness, Literature, and Society.” BOSTON C PUBLl LIBRARY rs I i f Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) https://archive.org/details/representationseOOmarc BOOKS BY STEVEN MARCUS: Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey The Other Victorians Engels, Manchester & the Working Class The Continental Op (Editor) Representations: Essays on Literature and Society Representations ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Steven Marcus RANDOM HOUSE Q NEW YORK Representations Essays on Literature and Society — © Copyright^1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1975 by Steven Marcus All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions, Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. The following first appeared in Partisan Review: "Evelyn Waugh and the Art of Entertainment" ^3, 1956, "Snopes Revisited" #3, 1957 and "Three Obsessed Critics" #4, 1958. "Sinclair Lewis I" was first pub- New lished in Statesman. "Awakening from the Nightmare? Notes on the Historical Novel" originally appeared in Harper’s. "Hunger and Ideology" and "Mt. Everest and the British National Spirit" first ap- peared in Commentary. The following were originally published in The New York Review of Books: "The Poetry of Madness," "The Limits of Literary History," "The Ideal Reviewer," and "Sinclair Lewis 11." Thanks are due the following for permission to reprint previously copyrighted material: The New York Times for a book review, Janu- ary 13, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by The New York Times Company; Daedalus (Winter, 1972) for "Language into Structure: Pickwick © Papers." Copyright 1972 by American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., for Introduction to Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling. Introduction Copyright © 1962 by Macmillan Pub- lishing Co., Inc.; Random House, Inc., for Introduction "Dashiell Hammett and the Continental Op," to The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett. Introduction Copyright © 1974 by Steven Marcus, Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Marcus, Steven. Representations. — CONTENTS: Hunger and ideology. Authority and obedience, — Snopes revisited. Sinclair Lewis, I and 11, [etc.] — — 1. English literature History and criticism Addresses, essays, lec- — — tures. 2. American literature History and criticism Addresses, es- says, lectures. 3. Literature and society. I. Title. PR99.M3247 820'.9'3 75-10252 ISBN 0-394-49559-4 Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition
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