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REVIEW: Stephen SCHRYER, National Review’s Literary Network: Conservative Circuits, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp.
National Review’s Literary Network: Conservative Circuits is the title of the new book by Stephen Schryer, a scholar in the English department at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Schryer’s book, published by Oxford University Press in 2024, focuses on the literary works of authors and intellectuals who frequently contributed to the conservative magazine «National Review» since the late 1950s. Schryer analyzes the works of conservative authors including Hugh Kenner, Whittaker Chambers, John Don Passos, Guy Davenport, Joan Didion, Garry Wills, and Keith Mano. Schryer’s book points out the influence that such literary works had on «National Review», founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in New York City in 1955, and American conservatism between the 1950s and 1980s. In addition, Schryer explores the contribution of conservative literary networks, especially those connected to «National Review», to American literary culture. As repeatedly affirmed throughout the book, according to Schryer, Buckley Jr. decided to give space to conservative writers’ literary works in order to offer an intellectual conservative alternative to the perceived cultural dominance of the liberal élites in the media and academia in the United States. […]
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Fulvia Dellavedova is currently a PhD candidate in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples. Her research interests mainly focus on Catholic conservatism and neo-conservatism in the United States. In October 2023, she wrote the article: «Neoconservative Interpretations of Catholic Social Teaching: The Political Debate over the Encyclical Centesimus Annus», in JoMaCC, 2, 2/2023, pp. 51-72.
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DELLAVEDOVA, Fulvia, «REVIEW: Stephen SCHRYER, National Review’s Literary Network: Conservative Circuits, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp.», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 61, 1|2025
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