| Description |
ix, 187 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: rethinking modernism, remapping the turn of the twentieth century -- 1. Beatrice Webb and the "serious" artist -- 2. Inventing literary tradition, ghosting Oscar Wilde and the Victorian fin de siecle -- 3. The Lost Girl, Tarr, and the "moment" of modernism -- 4. Mapping the middlebrow in Edwardian England -- 5. "Life is not composed of watertight compartments": the New Age's critique of modernist literary specialization -- Conclusion: modernism and English studies in history |
| Summary |
"In Modernism and Cultural Conflict, Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of the radical nature of literary modernism. She positions the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce among a number of groups in Britain intent on redefining the cultural work of literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Ardis emphasizes the ways in which these modernists secured their cultural centrality, by documenting their support of mainstream attitudes toward science, their retreat from a supposed valuing of scandalous sexuality in the wake of Oscar Wilde's trials in 1895, and the conservative cultural and sexual politics masked by their radical formalist poetics |
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Recovering key instances of opposition to modernist self-fashioning in British socialism and feminism of the period, Ardis considers how literary modernism's rise to aesthetic prominence paved the way for the institutionalization of English studies through the devaluation of other aesthetic practices."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Culture conflict -- Great Britain.
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Culture conflict in literature.
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| LC no. |
2002067060 |
| ISBN |
0521812062 |
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