compiled by Ralph Dumain

BOOKS BY CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL (1907-1937)
(Pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg)

Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet: 1986.

The Concept of Freedom. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977.

The Crisis in Physics, edited with an introduction by Professor H[yman] Levy. London: John Lane, 1939 [repr. 1949].

Illusion and Reality; a Study of the Sources of Poetry. New York: International Publishers, 1967.

Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature, edited by Samuel Hynes. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1970.

Scenes and Actions: Unpublished Manuscripts, selected, edited, and introduced by Jean Duparc and David Margolies. London: New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.

Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture, introduction by Sol Yurick. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. [Reprint of Studies in a Dying Culture (1938) & Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949)]

This My Hand [novel]. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1936.

[Note: The author also published several books of crime fiction and on aeronautics under his real name.]

STUDIES OF CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL

Margolies, David N. The Function of Literature: A Study of Christopher Caudwell's Aesthetics. New York: International Publishers, 1969.

Pawling, Christopher. Christopher Caudwell: Towards a Dialectical Theory of Literature. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.

Sheehan, Helena. Marxism and the Philosophy of Science. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985. See pp. 350-385. [See web page link below.]

Singh, Darbar. Philosophy of Aesthetics: Reading Caudwell. Delhi: Anupama Publications, 1992. (Originally 1982.)

Sullivan, Robert. Christopher Caudwell. London; Sydney: Croom Helm, 1987.

Thompson, E.P. Making History: Writings on History and Culture. New York: The New Press, 1994. See pp. 78-140. Here is Thompson at his most philosophically insightful and brilliant, possibly the best analytical synopsis of Caudwell.

LINKS

"Christopher Caudwell and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" by Shaun Lovejoy

"Philosophical Portrait of a Dying Civilization" by Ralph Dumain. Abstract; Paper

“Studies in a Dying Culture” Internet radio program (5/10/10 - )

“Studies in a Dying Culture”blog, (July 2007 - )

Offsite;

Christopher Caudwell Archive

Pacifism and Violence. A Study in Bourgeois Ethics by Christopher Caudwell

Christopher Caudwell (1907-1937) by Helena Sheehan

Caudwell / Sprigg bibliography (Helena Sheehan)

Jarama: Where Caudwell died

Christopher Caudwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Christopher Caudwell His aesthetics and film" by Ellen Sypher

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