Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-07932-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry's hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherry, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The time of decadence; 2. The demonstrable decadence of modernist novels; 3. Ezra Pound, 1906–20; 4. T. S. Eliot, 1910–22.

Über Autor(innen)

Sherry, Vincent
Vincent Sherry is Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis. He is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Modernism and the author of several books in the field. Sherry is currently working on A Literary History of the European War of 1914–1918.