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Modernist nowheres Politics and utopia in early modernist writing 1900-1920 /

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, dur...

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Main Authors: Waddell, Nathan
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Modernism Literature > Great Britain
Modernism Literature > United States
English literature > History and criticism > 20th century
American literature > History and criticism > 20th century
Utopias in literature
Politics in literature
Literary theory > English
Literary studies: from c 1900 - > English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137265067
Summary: 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.
'In this irreplaceable contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship on literary utopias, Nathan Waddell shows how some of the great experiments of early modernism emerge from a tension between powerful impulses toward social transformation and equally powerful doubts that utopian hopes should be encouraged. Waddell treats a satisfyingly wide range of writers without sacrificing historical or conceptual coherence; Modernist Nowheres is an admirably insightful, deeply honest inquiry from start to finish.' - Professor Douglas Mao, Department Chair, Department of English, John Hopkins Unive
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230278998.
Carrier Form: 248 p.
ISBN: 9780230278998
9781137265067 :
113726506X :
CLC: I561.094
Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Maps Worth Glancing At Meliorism and Edwardian Modernity Questions of Perfectibility Forlorn Hopes and The English Review Magnetic Cities and Simple Lives Individualism, Happiness, and Labour Vorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and War Idealisms and Contingencies Conclusion Bibliography Index.

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