Micromodernism : Rethinking Literary Renewal in the Long 1930s (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)

Armstrong, Tim

Edinburgh University Press（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399535908
• DDC分類 809.043

Full Description

What is wrong with 'literary modernism' as a paradigm? One answer is that it is over-written, a kind of 'winner's history' with a relatively narrow canon of innovative works, even including recent additions. Another is that it is a retrospective construction, rather than a term much used in its period. This book seeks to return to the scene of literary renewal, and to examine representative small groupings struggling, in the wake of the High Modernism of the 1920s, to articulate their own avant-garde ambitions in terms of politics, personal values, aesthetic categories, or continued allegiances to writers like Lawrence. In looking at microhistories, at literary beginnings and even at failure, we are forced to reexamine our mapping of modernism.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface

Introduction
1. Antipodean Exits
2. Red Lion Street: Modernism as Provocation
3. Hammersmith Modernism: Collaboration, Finality, Letters
4. Social Credit Modernism
5. Proems: Ambition's Empty Vessel
6. The New Apocalypse: The Lonely Avant-garde
7. Eithne Wilkins: Modernism and Global War
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index