Reaction and the Avant-Garde
Subtitle: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Brtiain (International Library of Political Studies)
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845110390
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; 20th century; Europe; Fascism; Great Britain; Politics and literature; Radicalism
Description: "'Reaction and the Avant-Garde" illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the century, which had a powerful hold on Europe's intellectual elite. Prominent literary figures, such as Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons, led a revolt against liberal parliamentary democracy in Britain. This group despised parliaments as representing and embodying a 'nation'. Villis examines the literary works, private papers, correspondence and memoirs of the leaders of this anti-Semitic, anti-modern, anti-women's rights movement that formed the intellectual underpinning of European fascism."--Bloomsbury Publishing.