Radical Literature and Cultural Validation

THE iNVlSffilUTYOFRADiCAL FICTION in the writing and teaching of cultural history has long frustrated critics on the left Eager shift radically the political balance of the literary tradition, they have called repeatedly for the publication of anthologies and reprint series that would recirculate and reclaim works which have previously been marginalized by mainstream criticism. The launch in 1990 of Merlin Radical Fiction (MRF) is one response this appeal. Published under the general editorship of John Lucas, the series aims, to make available for present-day readers a number of once well-known [British, European and American] novels which have been languishing out of print, if not out of mind. Yet while MRF satisfies the legitimate desire increase the visibility of previously neglected texts, both the overall concept of the series and the individual novels that comprise it

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