Modernism and the crisis of sovereignty
By: Andrew John Miller
Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780415956048
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. -- 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, T. S. -- 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics in literature; Sovereignty in literature; Geopolitics in literature; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Political and social views; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-212) and index
Table of contents: title: Crisis of sovereignty : global civil war in Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf; title: Civil wars of language : Irish performativity in Yeats; title: "Social welfare dream" : sovereignty, responsibility, and biopolitics in Yeats; title: "Compassing material ends" : sovereignty, pluralism, and professionalism in Eliot; title: Between nation and profession : aesthetic sovereignty in Woolf's Between the acts; title: "Traditions of the private house" : sovereignty, civility, and ownership