Worlds of Irving Howe

Irving Howe (1920-1993) was the founding editor of Dissent Magazine and the author ofPolitics and the Novel, World of Our Fathers, and Socialism in America. He was a founder of Democratic Socialists of America and was considered one of the country's most influential literary critics until his death.John Rodden is the author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell, and Understanding Orwell's Animal Farm.

• Introduction: The Worlds of Irving Howe; I: Labor Historian and Literary Biographer-Critic; The UAW and Walter Reuther (1949); Sherwood Anderson (1951); William Faulkner (1952); II: Editor-Translator, Literary Essayist, and Political Historian; A Treasury of Yiddish Stories (1954); Politics and the Novel (1957); The American Communist Party (1958); Modern Literary Criticism (1959); A World More Attractive (1964); III: Polemicist and Cultural Diagnostician; Steady Work (1966); The Radical Imagination (1967); Thomas Hardy (1967); Decline of the New (1970); The Seventies (1973); IV: Scholar-Critic and Autobiographer; World of Our Fathers (1949); Leon Trotsky (1978); Celebrations and Attacks (1979); V: Elegist and Memoirist; A Margin of Hope (1982); Socialism and America (1985); The American Newness (1986); Selected Writings, 1950–1990 (1990); VI: Posthumous Affirmations and Dissents; 21: Obituaries, Reassessments, and Memorials