Calverton, V[ictor] F[rancis]

Calverton, V[ictor] F[rancis]( 1900–1940),
Marxist literary critic, set forth his concept of the sociological interpretation of literature in The Newer Spirit (1925) and practiced it in The Liberation of American Literature (1932). His other books include Sex Expression in Literature (1926); For Revolution (1932); The Awakening of America (1939), a history of early America in “terms of the ruled instead of the rulers”; and Where Angels Dared to Tread (1941), describing Utopian ventures in the U.S. He edited The Modern Quarterly: A Journal of Radical Opinion. His real name was George Goetz.