The Self and the State

IRVING HOWE was educated at the City College of New York, and has taught at Brandeis and Stanford universities and at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships and for the past two years has been a MacArthur Fellow. An author of works on literary theory and cultural criticism and co-editor of several collections of Yiddish stories and poetry, he has also published critical biographies of American and British authors, including Sherwood Anderson, A Critical Biography (1951), William Faulkner, A Critical Study (1953, revised, enlarged edition, 1962), Thomas Hardy, A Critical Study (1967), and Age of Emerson (1986).