| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Aristocracy unmade and remade -- Hierarchies of idiocy : stupidity and intelligence -- The noble style : aristocratic boredom -- Aches, howls, and holes : country-house nostalgia -- Hieroglyphic worlds : transatlantic sophistication -- Capricious benevolence : kindness and cruelty -- Coda. Monsters after modernism. |
| Summary |
"[This] book traces the literary consequences of the modernist preoccupation with aristocracy in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Ford Madox Ford, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, and others writing in Britain and Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Combining an historical focus on the decades between the two world wars with close attention to the verbal textures and formal structures of literary texts, Adam Parkes asks: What did the decline of the British aristocracy do for modernist writers? What imaginative and creative opportunities did the historical fate of the aristocracy precipitate in writers of the new democratic age? Exploring a range of feelings, affects, and attitudes that modernist authors associated with the aristocracy in the interwar period--from stupidity, boredom, and nostalgia to sophistication, cruelty, and kindness--the book also asks what impact this subject-matter has on the form and style of modernist texts, and why the results have appealed to readers then and now. In tackling such questions, Parkes argues for a reawakening of curiosity about connections between class, status, and literature in the modernist period." -- Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature (OCoLC)fst00814473
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English literature (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Spine Title |
Modernism & the aristocracy |
| Other Form: |
Electronic version: Parkes, Adam. Modernism and the Aristocracy. Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023 9780192691286 (OCoLC)1391015682 |
| ISBN |
019286629X hardcover |
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9780192866295 hardcover |
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