Modernist nowheres
Subtitle: politics and utopia in early modernist writing, 1900-1920
By: Nathan Waddell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230278998
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; Modern Literature; Modernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Politics in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.