Author

Publication

2016-02-28 - Clemson University Press

Language

English

Word Count

55,000 words, Guess

Page Count

220 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100990895882
  • ISBN-139780990895886
  • OCLC Control Number942678741
  • Better World Books9780990895886
  • Open LibraryOL27450245M

Classifications

  • LCCPR478

Description

"The work of English modernists in the 1920s and 1930s - particularly D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - often expresses a fundamental ambivalence towards the social, cultural and technological developments of the period. These writers collectively embody the tensions and contradictions which infiltrate English modernism as the interwar period progresses, combining a profound sense of attachment to rural place and traditions with a similarly strong attraction to metropolitan modernity - the latter being associated with transience, possibility, literary innovation, cosmopolitanism, and new developments in technology and transportation. In this book, Sam Wiseman analyses key texts by these four authors, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan"--Back cover

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Reimagining of Place in English ModernismHardcoverClemson University Press2016-02-28

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