Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics - Hardcover

Ferrall, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521793459 ISBN 13: 9780521793452

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Charles Ferrall argues that the politics of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis was a response to the separation of art from an increasingly industrialized society. Fascism became attractive to these writers because it promised to reintegrate art into society while simultaneously guaranteeing its autonomy. Yet with the exception of Pound and Yeats, these writers all finally rejected fascism, preferring instead to see the aesthetic as a sphere in permanent opposition to liberal democracy, rather than the basis for a new social order.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Ferrall is Lecturer in the School of English, Film and Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington. His articles have been published in Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, University of Toronto Quarterly, English Studies in Canada, and Modern Fiction Studies.

Review:

"This is a carefully researched, thoughtful exposition of the views of five influential modernists." Modernism/Modernity 11/01

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521793459
• ISBN 13: 9780521793452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212