"Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or god-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian Leftist thought and creative work that challenges both camps. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first history of writers who were political radicals because they were theological conservatives, as their reverence for tradition impelled them to work for social justice. Challenging recent literary histories that read twentieth-century American literature against the ...
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"Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or god-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian Leftist thought and creative work that challenges both camps. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first history of writers who were political radicals because they were theological conservatives, as their reverence for tradition impelled them to work for social justice. Challenging recent literary histories that read twentieth-century American literature against the backdrop of a rising Religious Right, Communion of Radicals uncovers a different literary lineage for whom allegiance to religious tradition fostered dedication to a more just future. From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression to the Civil Rights movement, traditional faith empowered the rebellious writing of socialists, anarchists, and Catholic personalists such as Vida Scudder, Dorothy Day, Claude McKay, F. O. Matthiessen, and W. H. Auden. By recovering their strain of traditioned radicalism, McGregor shows how strong faith in the past can fuel the struggle for an equitable future. Christian Socialists such as Scudder and Ralph Adams Cram envisioned their movement for beloved community as a modern version of medieval monasticism. Day and the Catholic Workers followed the fourteenth-century example of St. Francis when they lived and wrote among the bums on the Bowery during the Great Depression. Tennessee's Fellowship of Southern Churchmen argued for a socialist and antiracist reading of "the South and the Agrarian tradition." Medievalist and agrarian roots flowered into creative expressions encompassing the queer and Black medievalist poetry of Auden and McKay, respectively; Matthiessen's Catholic socialist interpretation of the American Renaissance; and the genteel anarchism of Walker Percy's southern comic novels. Imaginative writing enabled these Christian Leftists to commune with the past and with each other, impelling their radical efforts in the present. Communion of Radicals chronicles a literary Christian left that unites deeply traditional faith with radical politics and offers a usable past that disrupts perceived alignments of politics and religion"--
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