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Interwar modernism and the liberal world order : offices, institutions, and aesthetics after 1919 /

"This book is about modernism's role in the reconstruction of the liberal world after 1919. Once we knew how literary modernists saw that liberal world: as the Enemy. When T. S. Eliot calls interwar Britain "worm-eaten with Liberalism," when Ezra Pound remarks in Guide to Kulchur...

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Main Authors: Hankins, Gabriel, 1981-
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2019.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > History > 20th century.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Liberalism > History > 20th century.
Liberalism in literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society > History > 20th century.
American literature.
English literature.
Liberalism.
Literature and society.
Modernism (Literature)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Summary: "This book is about modernism's role in the reconstruction of the liberal world after 1919. Once we knew how literary modernists saw that liberal world: as the Enemy. When T. S. Eliot calls interwar Britain "worm-eaten with Liberalism," when Ezra Pound remarks in Guide to Kulchur that "liberalism is a running sore," when even W. H. Auden proclaims the failure of interwar liberal political institutions, they spoke for a modernist consensus: interwar liberal world order, with its commitments to progressive democratic reform, promise of rational relations between nations, and hopes for a cosmopolitan perpetual peace, merely veiled the rot of the old bourgeois order. Scholars thus traditionally understood the modernist relationship to liberal interwar government as either a directly antagonistic anti-liberalism or a displaced cultural agonism." --
Carrier Form: vii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781108494564
1108494560
9781108731782
1108731783
Index Number: PR478
CLC: I561.065
Call Number: I561.065/H241-1
Contents: Introduction: modernism against the liberal world -- The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order -- Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf -- The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot -- Typewriter fiction at the Secretariat -- Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: René Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay -- Coda: brief history of an antipathy: liberal order and modernist criticism.

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