Modernist Nowheres [electronic resource] : Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 /
Waddell, N.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Maps Worth Glancing AtMeliorism and Edwardian ModernityQuestions of PerfectibilityForlorn Hopes and The English ReviewMagnetic Cities and Simple LivesIndividualism, Happiness, and LabourVorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and WarIdealisms and ContingenciesConclusionBibliographyIndex.
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.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.