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The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howes work written by some of the most prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century, among them Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, C. Vann Woodward, Robert Coles, Daniel Bell, Malcolm Cowley, and Arthur Schlesinger. The critical estimates of Howes major books, collected here and framed by a major biographical introduction by John Rodden, constitute a sharply focused lens through which readers can re-evaluate the legacy of one of Americans leading intellectuals and thereby understand the main issues of twentieth-century Anglo-American cultural history. Contributors: Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, C. Vann Woodward, Newton Arvin, Charles Angoff, Edward Dahlberg, Isaac Rosenfeld, Richard Chase, H.D. Lasswell, Dennis Wrong, Michael Harrington, Christopher Lasch, Robert Coles, Daniel Bell, Malcolm Cowley, Arthur Schlesinger, Theodore Solotaroff, Clive James, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, and William Phillips, among others.

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THE WORLDS OF IRVING HOWE

Irving Howe speaking at a conference of the Democratic Socialists of America - photo 2

Irving Howe speaking at a conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, c. 1980. Photo by Hugh Cleland.

THE WORLDS OF IRVING HOWE

THE CRITICAL LEGACY

edited by

John Rodden

First published 2005 by Paradigm Publishers

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The worlds of Irving Howe : the critical legacy / edited by John Rodden.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-59451-024-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Howe, Irving. 2. CriticismUnited

StatesHistory20th century. 3. American

literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc. I. Rodden, John. II. Title.

PS29.E68W67 2005

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ISBN 13 : 978-1-59451-024-3 (hbk)

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My mother and father,
in gratitude for their journey
from the Old World to the New

Irving Horenstein at age 10 in the summer of 1930 around the time when his - photo 4

Irving Horenstein at age 10, in the summer of 1930, around the time when his fathers grocery store went bankrupt. The family relocated shortly thereafter to a poorer neighborhood in the East Bronx, living with relatives.

Irving Horenstein playing the violin c 1930 He enjoyed the instrument and - photo 5

Irving Horenstein playing the violin, c. 1930. He enjoyed the instrument and continued to play it in high school.

Horenstein 16 in his graduation photo from the all-boys De Witt Clinton High - photo 6

Horenstein, 16, in his graduation photo from the all-boys De Witt Clinton High School in northwest Bronx, 1936. Howe was active in the Young Peoples Socialist League during his high school years.

Contents

John Rodden

Irving Howe with his second wife Thalia Phillies Howe in front of their - photo 7

Irving Howe with his second wife, Thalia Phillies Howe, in front of their Princeton home in 1949. Thalia taught Latin and Greek at Miss Fines, a private day school for girls in Princeton. Howe worked as a full-time independent writer during their Princeton years.

Thalia and Irving Howe with the literary critic Richard Blackmur a member of - photo 8

Thalia and Irving Howe with the literary critic Richard Blackmur, a member of the English Department at Princeton University, c. 1950.

Irving Howe with Ilana Wiener Howe his fourth wife at Penoboscot Bay Maine - photo 9

Irving Howe with Ilana Wiener Howe, his fourth wife, at Penoboscot Bay, Maine, 1987. Howe met Ilana, an Israeli, on his first trip to Israel in 1974. He collaborated with Ilana on literary projects, such as their co-edited collection of stories, Short Shorts (1983).

The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy comprises a selective reception history of the literary, cultural, and political criticism of Irving Howe. The collection broadens our understanding of Howes achievement by demonstrating the impact not only of his best-known books (such as World of Our Fathers and his autobiography, A Margin of Hope) but also of his numerous books on U.S. labor, the American Left, Yiddishkeit, contemporary politics, and European literature. Toward this end I have combined biography, reception history, and cultural commentary in order to illuminate the different worlds that Irving Howe inhabited as a socialist, Jew, and critic: the world of the leftist sect and then the American Trotskyist and socialist movements; the world of the Yiddish immigrant community in New York and later the wider Jewish community in America; and the overlapping worlds of the New York intellectuals, of the political weeklies and literary quarterlies, and of American university English departments. All of these circles and networks of intellectual exchange conditioned the political, personal, cultural, and professional dynamics that governed both the reception of Howes work and his evolution as a thinker and writer.

Unlike my previous book, Irving Howe and the Critics, which was chiefly devoted to original, often quite personal responses to Howes work from his contemporaries, the present study is a comprehensive work of reference and historical scholarship. In order to document the reception of Howes complex achievement, The Worlds of Irving Howe includes an assortment of materials: short book reviews, essay-reviews, articles from intellectual quarterlies, obituaries, memoirs, and reassessments. I have selected these items with an eye variously toward their critical quality, historical significance, biographical interest, generational importance, ideological slant, and general representative value. Ultimately, I have favored responses to Howe by influential intellectual contemporaries and successorswriters whose work possesses its own intrinsic interest. Each document included in this book is preceded by a biographical headnote that discusses the author of the selection and, in most instances, highlights the key claims of the item, places it in the context of its authors career, and/or clarifies its authors relationship to Howe.

I dedicate this book to my parents, John and Rose Rodden, Irish Catholics from County Donegal. Their decades of ceaseless encouragement and generous support enabled me to study American literature and the history of socialism, domains beyond the immigrant worlds of my father and mother.

Irving Howe lectured at the American Studies Seminar at the University of - photo 10

Irving Howe lectured at the American Studies Seminar at the University of Salzburg in 1958. Afterwards, he and Thalia toured France and Italy with their children, Nina and Nicholas.

1920	Irving Arthur Horenstein, who later adopted the name Irving Howe (IH) is born on June 11, at 139th Street in the Bronx, New York City, a Yiddish-speaking neighborhood, to David and Nettie (Goldman) Horenstein.

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