Modernist nowheres : politics and utopia in early modernist writing, 1900-1920 / Nathan Waddell
- Author:
- Waddell, Nathan
- Published:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction: maps worth studying -- 1. Meliorism and Edwardian modernity -- 2. Questions of perfectibility -- 3. Forlorn hopes and The English Review -- 4. Magnetic cities and simple lives -- 5. Individualism, happiness, and labour -- 6. Vorticism and the limits of BLAST -- 7. Satire, impressionism, and war -- 8. Idealisms and contingencies -- Conclusion.
- Summary:
- "Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War"--
- Subject(s):
- Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain
- Modernism (Literature)—United States
- Utopias in literature
- Politics in literature
- Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism—Theory, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- ISBN:
- 9780230278998 (hardback)
023027899X (hardback) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-228) and index.
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