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Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left is the first full critical study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York. Regarded by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as one of the finest young fiction writers to emerge from this era, Cantwell is best known for his superb novel, The Land of Plenty, set in western Washington. His literary legacy, however, was largely lost during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era, when he retreated to conservatism.
Through meticulous research, an engaging writing style, and a deep commitment to the history of American social movements, T. V. Reed uncovers the story of a writer who brought his Pacific Northwest brand of justice to bear on the project of reworking American literature to include ordinary working people in its narratives. In tracing the flourishing of the American literary Left as it unfolded in New York, Reed reveals a rich progressive culture that can inform our own time.
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My greatest intellectual debt during the years of composition for this book is to Alan Wald, for whom a mere dedication is far from enough of an acknowledgement of his unparalleled contribution to the study of the US cultural left, or for the generosity he has always shown toward me and this project. Brilliant Paula Rabinowitz likewise offered crucial support at several junctures along the way, and has been an exemplary friend from our mellon fellowing (mellow feloning) days to this day. I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for the UW Press. Many other fine scholars, met and unmet, will find acknowledgement in footnotes and my bibliography. None of these, of course, is to blame for the lame parts of this book, or for errors of fact, judgment, sentiment, interpretation, or editing that are no doubt strewn about in hopefully not too obvious places in the text.
My deepest personal and intellectual debt is as ever to Nol Sturgeon, who has continued to push this project to conclusion over far too many years, and who is a stellar partner in every way that matters. Likewise for Hart Sturgeon-Reed, great companion and my best hope for the next generation of world makers.
At the University of Washington Press I want especially to thank Ranjit Arab, an unfailingly patient, compassionate, and thoughtful editor, Kerrie Maynes for her astute copyediting, and Mary Ribesky, Jacqueline Volin, Dustin Kilgore, and all the other folks at the press who worked to bring this book out to the world.
Many thanks to Mary Cantwell Nelson and the Knight Library Special Collections staff for permission to quote from the Cantwell Papers. And, appropriately last but not least, thanks to Amanda Paxton for her excellent indexing.
Portions of appeared in different form in Michael Steiner, ed., Regionalists on the Left (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013).
About the time of Cantwell's death, a ten-year-old boy from his hometown of Aberdeen was beginning to explore the lyrical musical musings that would make him a founding figure of grunge rock. Kurt Cobain grew up a working-class kid in an Aberdeen that remained little changed from the early twentieth century. In his youth, it was still a rough-and-tumble, working-class town with few upward routes in class status. It is a sign of Cobain's time, and our current time, that his much-heralded social anger is almost never analyzed in class terms but only through the clich of youthful rebellion. Cobain may have never developed class consciousness in any Marxist sense, but working-class experience shaped him in a myriad of ways. The failure of Cobain and millions like him to identify as working class, to recognize that a working-class hero is something to be, however, reflects setbacks to the labor movement over the last decades of the twentieth century, and efforts by both major political parties to pretend that there is no working class in America (we are all middle class now, unless we are in abject poverty due to our own laziness). Driven largely by successful efforts to use racism as a divisive force, setting white workers against workers of color, the right wing's determined attacks on union power and cooptation of social issues to divide and conquer has led to an inability among most people to think coherently about the role of class in the everyday affairs of the United States. For this reason, among many others, recovering the legacy of the era that saw a major laboring of American culture is not only a historical concern but also a vitally important political endeavor today.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Manuscript Sources
Arvin, Newton. Papers. Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library.
Cantwell, Robert. Papers. Special Collections, University of Oregon Knight Library, Eugene, Oregon. An inventory of the collection is available from the manuscripts librarian, or online at http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv41731.
Cowley, Malcolm. Papers. Yale University Library.
Josephson, Matthew. Papers. Yale University Library.
Published Fiction by Robert Cantwell, 192939
Hanging by My Thumbs. In New American Caravan edited by Van-Wyck Brooks, Alfred Kreymborg, and Lewis Mumford, 18498. New York: Macauley, 1929.
Hills around Centralia. In Proletarian Literature in the United States edited by Granville Hicks et al., 3957. New York: International, 1935.
The Land of Plenty. New Republic (Oct. 12, 1932): 22832.
The Land of Plenty. New York: Farrar and Rhinehart, 1934.
The Land of Plenty. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971.
The Land of Plenty. Logansport, IN: Pharos Press, 2013.
Laugh and Lie Down. New York: Farrer and Rhinehart, 1931.
The Wreck of the Gravy Train. New Republic (Jan. 6, 1932): 21618.
Critical Essays, Book Reviews, and Reportage by Robert Cantwell, 192939
The list that follows is not meant to be comprehensive but rather aims to include Cantwell's most important literary-political pieces as well as a sampling of his nonpolitical criticism. Persons wishing to gain a fuller picture of Cantwell's work as a book reviewer should also consult the monthly review column of the New Outlook, which carried Cantwell's byline from October 1932 until April 1935.
America and the Writers Project. New Republic (Apr. 26, 1939): 32325.
Author's Field Day: A Symposium on Marxist Criticism. New Masses (July 3, 1934): 2728.
The Autobiographers. New Republic (Apr. 27, 1938): 35456.
Autobiographical Sketch of Robert Cantwell. Wilson Bulletin for Librarians 10 (1936): 298.
Better News from California. New Republic (May 22, 1935): 4142.
Both Monologues. New Republic (June 26, 1935): 199. Review of Grandsons by Louis Adamic, and Talk United States by Robert Whitcomb.
Brightness Falls from the Air: A Literary Sermon. New Republic (Aug. 5, 1936): 37577. On James Joyce.
Can You Hear Their Voices? New Republic (Oct. 18, 1933): 28586.
The Communists and the C.I.O. New Republic (Feb. 23, 1938): 6366.
Dramatists Raw Material. New Republic (June 28, 1933): 18788. On the Bonus March.
Effective Propaganda. Nation (Dec. 19, 1932): 37273. On Grace Lumpkin's To Make My Bread.
The End of a Tradition. New Republic (March 30, 1932): 188.
The Esthetics of Plunder. New Republic, March 14, 1934, 13536. Review of Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons.
Exiles. New Republic (Dec. 13, 1933): 13637. Review contrasting Kay Boyle and Jack Conroy.
Faulkner's Thirteen Stories. New Republic (Oct. 21, 1931): 271.
Fiction for the Millions. New Republic (Dec. 22, 1937): 203. Review of Upton Sinclair's The Flivver King.
Four Novelists of Tomorrow. New Republic (March 8, 1933): 1089. Review of novels by James Farrell, Albert Harper, Meyer Levin, and M. K. Rawlings.
Four NovelsNot without Propaganda. New Republic (April 12, 1933): 252.
The Future of American Journalism. New Republic (Nov. 8, 1939): 3941.
The Hidden Northwest. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.
The Influence of James Joyce. New Republic (Dec. 27, 1933): 200201.
JournalismMagazines. In America Now: An Inquiry into Civilization in the United States, edited by Harold E. Stearns, 34555. New York: Literary Guild of America, 1938.
The King Is Naked. New Republic (May 20, 1936): 3538. Review of three current biographies of William Randolph Hearst.
Lawrence's Last Novel. New Republic (Dec. 24, 1930): 171.
Lincoln Steffens Voice.
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