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Scenes and Actions: Unpublished Manuscripts, selected, edited, and introduced by Jean Duparc and David Margolies.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)]

[Note: The author 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.

Sheehan, Helena. Marxism and the Philosophy of Science. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1985. See pp. 350-385.

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.

[There are other critiques, studies, debates, and some other recent monographs on Caudwell, but these sources are the best and most readily available introductions.]

(Compiled & uploaded 1 August 2000)