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History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

by Randolph Silliman Bourne

English· 08:13:10· 16 chapters
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay "Trans-National America" as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. - Summary by Ben Adams

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introduction

    38:29
  2. Chapter 2

    History of a Literary Radical

    39:38
  3. Chapter 3

    Our Cultural Humility

    17:14
  4. Chapter 4

    Six Portraits, part 1

    43:44
  5. Chapter 5

    Six Portraits, part 2

    31:11
  6. Chapter 6

    This Older Generation

    26:31
  7. Chapter 7

    A Mirror of the Middle West

    15:00
  8. Chapter 8

    Ernest: or a Parent for a Day

    43:16
  9. Chapter 9

    On Discussion

    10:46
  10. Chapter 10

    The Puritan's Will to Power

    18:24
  11. Chapter 11

    The Immanence of Dostoevsky

    08:46
  12. Chapter 12

    The Art of Theodore Dreister

    16:10
  13. Chapter 13

    The Uses of Infallibility

    30:04
  14. Chapter 14

    Impressions of Europe

    54:25
  15. Chapter 15

    Trans-National America

    47:27
  16. Chapter 16

    Fragment of a Novel

    52:05