The Criterion

Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-war Britain

• Author(s): Jason Harding,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 250
• ISBN_10: 019924717X
  ISBN_13: 9780199247172
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism , Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry , Literary Collections / Essays , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism , Social Science / Jewish Studies ,

Description:... 'Lucid study of the Criterion so timely and so exciting.' -Areté: the Arts Tri-Quarterly '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 -Virginia Quarterly ReviewExploring the milieu of inter-war literary journalism, and drawing on a wealth of unpublished material and interviews with living witnesses to the period, Harding convincingly defends the Criterion against charges of Fascism and anti-Semitism in this important reassessment of Eliot's role as editor.