{"product_id":"meet-me-on-the-barricades-paperback","title":"Meet Me on the Barricades - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Yale Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBart Vautour\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEmily Robins Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Me on the Barricades is Harrison's most experimental work. The novel includes a series of fantasy sequences that culminate in a scene heavily indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce's Ulysses (the novel was published a year before James Thurber's better-known short story, \"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty\"). The novel is also Harrison's only foray into satire--an especially unexpected turn given that the Spanish Civil War literary canon, and particularly works of literature written in the midst of the war, tend towards earnestness rather than irony. Harrison's novel is thus a unique book, significant for its self-consciousness as a modernist novel and as a political document. Out of print since its single publication run in 1938, this critical edition recovers Harrison's important commentary on the heated \"culture wars\" of the 1930s and the Spanish Civil War. With an original critical introduction and extensive textual and editorial notes, this edition draws on original archival research to situate the novel within the modernist and leftist North American canons. Meet Me on the Barricades is a densely allusive text that layers global politics, revolutionary theory, classical music, literary theory, world history, and anti-Stalinism, as well as emergent biological discourses about sex. It recounts a few days in the life of P. Herbert Simpson, a middle-aged, weak-hearted oboist with the New York Symphony Orchestra and leftist fellow traveler. Simpson is subject to wild hallucinations that are sometimes daydreams, sometimes drunken delirium, and on occasion intricate dreams while asleep. He imagines escaping his unrewarding marriage with a prudish, domineering wife through a passionate fantasy of a Russian girlfriend, and escaping his day job in the symphony to fight on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. Published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBart Vautour (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBart Vautour\u003c\/b\u003e (Dalhousie) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk\/Halifax, Canada. His research examines Canadian cultural production with a focus on transnationalism, modernism, politics, poetics, and editing. He is co-editor (with Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn) of \u003ci\u003ePublic Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Vanessa Lent and Dean Irvine) \u003ci\u003eMaking Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also editor of a scholarly edition of Ted Allan's Spanish Civil War novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Time a Better Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (1939) and co-editor of Charles Yale Harrison's \u003ci\u003eMeet Me on the Barricades \u003c\/i\u003e(1938), both from the University of Ottawa Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Robins Sharpe (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEmily Robins Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Keene State) is Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of the departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. Her book \u003ci\u003eMosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2020 by the University of Toronto Press. She is also the editor of a scholarly edition of Hugh Garner's Governor General's Award-winning \u003ci\u003eBest Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), and co-editor with Bart Vautour of a scholarly edition of Charles Yale Harrison's \u003ci\u003eMeet Me on the Barricades\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), both from the University of Ottawa Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398047477981,"sku":"9780776623689","price":35.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/sUdbuMsQM49780776623689.webp?v=1787219192","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/meet-me-on-the-barricades-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}