Walter B Rideout

Biographic Data

ID281604
NAMEWalter B Rideout
GIVEN NAMESWalter B
FAMILY NAMERideout
SIGNATURERIDEOUT W B
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Wisconsin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS12
WORKS AS AUTHOR23
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
H-INDEX1

  • The New York Intellectuals

    Walter B Rideout, Alan M WaldARTICLEAmerican Literature1988

  • Letters to Bab

    James H Maguire, William A Sutton et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1986

    The distinguished American author's letters to a close friend depict his experiences and examine literature and society

  • Sherwood Anderson

    Walter B Rideout, Charles E ModlinARTICLEAmerican Literature1985

  • The Revolutionary Imagination

    Walter B Rideout, Alan M WaldARTICLEAmerican Literature1985

    In study of two neglected New England poets, Alan Wald challenges the literary culture that has obscured the radical and Marxist heritage of American letters in our century. Simply by aspiring to accurate historical remembrance, Wald writes, this book aims to subvert the currently sanctified canon of letters and the vision of society legitimized by its codification.John Wheelwright (1897-1940) and Sherry Mangan (1904-1961) were Harvard-educated, …

  • Patterns of Nationality

    Walter B Rideout, Benjamin T SpencerARTICLEAmerican Literature1982

  • John Dos Passos

    Walter B Rideout, Townsend LudingtonARTICLEAmerican Literature1982

    This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biography of one of the strangest careers in American letters. -- Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review Ludington's fine, sweeping study . . . shows in full color Dos Passos the paradox, the self-contradiction, the eccentric of such proportions that the mere facts of his life would make arresting reading even if he had no particular genius. -- Washington Post Book World

  • Dos Passos

    Walter B Rideout, Linda W WagnerARTICLEAmerican Literature1980

  • Radical Visions and American Dreams

    Walter B Rideout, Richard Pells et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1974

  • The Fourteenth Chronicle

    Walter B Rideout, Townsend LudingtonARTICLEAmerican Literature1974

  • Proletarian Writers of the Thirties

    Walter B Rideout, David MaddenARTICLEAmerican Literature1969Cited by: 1

  • The Fiction of John Dos Passos by John D. Brantley

    Walter B RideoutARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1969

    Book Review| October 01 1969 The Fiction of John Dos Passos by John D. Brantley The Fiction of John Dos Passos. By Brantley, John D.. The Hague: Mouton, 1968. Pp. 136. 21 guilders. Walter B. Rideout Walter B. Rideout The University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (4): 563–564. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-4-563a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…

  • The Time of the Dial

    Walter B Rideout, William WasserstromARTICLEAmerican Literature1965

  • Willa Cather's Gift of Sympathy

    Walter B Rideout, Edward A et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1964

  • Writers on the Left

    Walter B Rideout, Daniel Aaron et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1964

  • Edith Wharton

    Walter B Rideout, Marilyn Jones LydeARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1960

  • Caesar's Column

    IgnatiusHG Donnelly, Ignatius Donnelly et al.BOOKCaesar's Column1960Cited by: 1

  • Letters of Theodore Dreiser

    Walter B Rideout, Robert Elias et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1960

  • The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-54. Some Interrelations of Literature and Society

    Arnold Kettle, Walter B RideoutARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1958

    This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of current interest in revolutionary Marxism. Also discussed are the reasons why literary critics of the following decades dismissed these writings as bizarre and improbable and questioned how the writers could have so badly miscalculated the future. Examples are drawn from socialist works s…

  • New Orleans Sketches

    Open AccessWalter B Rideout, William Faulkner et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1958

  • The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954

    J D Koerner, Walter B RideoutARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1957

  • The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954

    Frederick J Hoffman, Walter B RideoutARTICLEAmerican Literature1957

  • The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954

    Herbert A Bloch, Herbert Bloch et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1957Cited by: 10

  • Letters of Sherwood Anderson

    Bernard I Duffey, Howard Mumford Jones et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1954