History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

Randolph Silliman Bourne (1886 - 1918)

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

Genre(s): Essays

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Introduction Ben Adams
00:38:29
Play 01 History of a Literary Radical Ben Adams
00:39:38
Play 02 Our Cultural Humility Ben Adams
00:17:14
Play 03 Six Portraits, part 1 Ben Adams
00:43:44
Play 04 Six Portraits, part 2 Ben Adams
00:31:11
Play 05 This Older Generation Ben Adams
00:26:31
Play 06 A Mirror of the Middle West Greg Giordano
00:15:00
Play 07 Ernest: or a Parent for a Day Meliora Dockery
00:43:16
Play 08 On Discussion ktolber76
00:10:46
Play 09 The Puritan's Will to Power Rita Boutros
00:18:24
Play 10 The Immanence of Dostoevsky Greg Giordano
00:08:46
Play 11 The Art of Theodore Dreister Rita Boutros
00:16:10
Play 12 The Uses of Infallibility KHand
00:30:04
Play 13 Impressions of Europe Henry K. Noble
00:54:25
Play 14 Trans-National America sierasimone
00:47:27
Play 15 Fragment of a Novel KHand
00:52:05