Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty

Informationen zum Autor Andrew John Miller is Associate Professor in the Départment d'études anglaises at the Université de Montréal. Klappentext Miller describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the 20th century - Yeats! Elliot and Woolf - wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among and within independent nation-states seemed inescapable. Zusammenfassung This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century--Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf--wrestled with the geopolitical situation in the period from World War I through World War II. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Chapter 1: Crisis of Sovereignty: Global Civil War in Yeats! Eliot! and Woolf; Chapter 2: Civil Wars of Language: Irish Performativity in Yeats; Chapter 3: "Social Welfare Dream": Sovereignty! Responsibility! and Biopolitics in Yeats; Chapter 4: "Compassing Material Ends": Sovereignty! Pluralism! and Professionalism in Eliot; Chapter 5: Between Nation and Profession: Aesthetic Sovereignty in Woolf's Between the Acts; Chapter 6: "Traditions of the Private House": Sovereignty! Civility! and Ownership; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrew John Miller, Andrew John (University of Montreal Miller, Miller Andrew John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9780415541725
• ISBN: 978-0-415-54172-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature; Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general