Publication

2018-05-01 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

63,500 words, Guess

Page Count

254 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101108426360
  • ISBN-139781108426367
  • OCLC Control Number1023529589
  • Better World Books9781108426367
  • Open LibraryOL27840688M

Classifications

  • LCCPN51
  • LCCPR478.P64 H33 2018

Description

Despite sustained scholarly interest in the politics of modernism, astonishingly little attention has been paid to its relationship to Conservatism. Yet modernist writing was imbricated with Tory rhetoric and ideology from when it emerged in the Edwardian era. By investigating the many intersections between Anglophone modernism and Tory politics, 'Conservative Modernists' offers new ways to read major figures such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, and Ford Madox Ford. It also highlights the contribution to modernism of lesser-known writers, including Edward Storer, J. M. Kennedy, and A. M. Ludovici. These are the figures to whom it most frequently returns, but, cutting through disciplinary delineations, the book simultaneously reveals the inputs to modernism of a broad range of political writers, philosophers, art historians, and crowd psychologists: from Pascal, Burke, and Disraeli, to Nietzsche, Le Bon, Wallas, Worringer, Ribot, Bergson, and Scheler.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Conservative Modernists: Literature and Tory Politics in Britain, 1900-1920HardcoverCambridge University Press2018-05-01

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