Modernist Nowheres : Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920

Waddell, Nathan

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 234 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230278998
• DDC分類 820.9112

基本説明

Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, this book presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.

Full Description

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.

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Maps Worth Glancing At Meliorism and Edwardian Modernity Questions of Perfectibility Forlorn Hopes and The English Review Magnetic Cities and Simple Lives Individualism, Happiness, and Labour Vorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and War Idealisms and Contingencies Conclusion Bibliography Index