New Statesman

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

Domains

Periodicals

Dates

Date of occurrence 1913-04-12

Places

England (Location)

The New Statesman is a weekly political and literary magazine published from London since April 1913. For some periods of its history it appeared as the New Statesman and Nation (1931-58, after absorbing the Nation and Athenaeum) and as the New Statesman and Society (1988-96, after merger with New Society). Politically associated with the Left and with its puritan abstentionist traditions, it was for long periods linked especially with pacifist currents in and beyond the Labour Party. Its literary significance lies chiefly in its cultural “back half” of pages devoted to stories, essays, poems and reviews of books and the arts.

The magazine was founded by leaders of the …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

828 words

Citation: Baldick, Chris. "New Statesman". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 March 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19629, accessed 24 April 2024.]

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here

New Statesman

Domains

Dates

Places

Save this article

Leave Feedback