{"product_id":"into-the-melee-selected-essays-paperback","title":"Into the Melée: Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Mulhern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential collection of literary criticism from Francis Mulhern, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moment of 'Scrutiny'\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCulture\/Metaculture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInto the Melée\u003c\/i\u003e collects Francis Mulhern's insightful critical writing, much of it in the hybrid literary form that Bagehot described as 'the review-like essay and the essay-like review'. It opens with questions of nationality, from F. R. Leavis's efforts to assert a normatively English literary subject and Ferdinand Mount's exploration of English cultural landscapes to Tom Nairn's political vision of England and Scotland 'after Britain' and Joe Cleary's account of Irish modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnother cluster of texts concerns intellectuals and, in one way or another, the politics of revolution and counter-revolution, from Burke to the present. There is an updated sketch of the magazine \u003ci\u003en +1\u003c\/i\u003e as heir to the militant traditions of \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e. What is literature? Sartre's answer was: committed literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe writer \u003ci\u003eas such \u003c\/i\u003ewas of the left. But culture and politics are discrepant practices, inhabiting one another in permanent tension. In its embrace of provisionality and its magpie curiosity, Mulhern observes, the essay is a mode especially well suited to the purposes of a Marxist criticism morally committed to the value of being surprised.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancis Mulhern \u003c\/b\u003e(born 1952) comes from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. His books include \u003ci\u003eFigures of Catastrophe, Culture\/Metaculture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Moment of 'Scrutiny.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in London and is Associate Editor at \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.32 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763379044640,"sku":"9781804293348","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/75a41753c3fe888d7437a5214feaf226.webp?v=1780233806","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/into-the-melee-selected-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}