Conservative Modernists - Literature and Tory Politics in Britain, 1900-1920

Informationen zum Autor Christos Hadjiyiannis is currently a Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on modernism, including essays on T. E. Hulme and Edward Storer; Ezra Pound; J. M. Kennedy; Imagism; the avant-garde; and affect theory, phenomenology, and the literature of the First World War. He has written various encyclopedia entries and reviews non-fiction books regularly. Klappentext Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900-1920. Zusammenfassung Conservative Modernists engages with an on-going discussion about modernist aesthetics and politics. The book will be of interest to those working on or around the ideological politics of modernism! early modernist practices! abstract art! modernist magazines! and the politics and culture of Edwardian Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: modernists against modernity; 1. Conservative party crisis: Tory propaganda, imagist poetics; 2. Bringing poetry and politics back to Earth: Tory ideology and classical modernism; 3. The writer as conservative statesman: modernist theories of inspiration; 4. Against representation: conservatism and abstract art; 5. War, duty, sacrifice: anti-pacifism and objective ethics; Afterword: afterlives.

Product details

• Authors: HADJIYIANNI CHRISTO, Christos Hadjiyiannis, Christos (University of Oxford) Hadjiyiannis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108426367
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42636-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, 20th Century, Society & culture: general, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Society and culture: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies