Gaurav Majumdar

Illegitimate Freedom

Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900-1940

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900 - 1940 discusses the informal in relation with sensory experience, aesthetic presentation, ethical deliberation or action, and social attitudes within modernist works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781032115481
• ISBN-10: 1032115483
• Artikelnr.: 67823668

Autorenporträt

Gaurav Majumdar is Professor of English at Whitman College. His publications include the book Migrant Form: Anti-Colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie, and Ray.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Informality as Illegitimate Freedom
2. Chapter One: "Intoxicated Sense": Humour and Promiscuity in Woolf's To
the
Lighthouse and Orlando
3. Chapter Two: Marking Absence: Mansfield's Feminine Informality vs.
Lockean
Liberalism
4. Chapter Three: Eliotic Contempt
5. Chapter Four: Joyce's Challenges to Disgust
6. Chapter Five: "Inverted Hypocrisy": Auden's Informal Pedagogy
7. Conclusion: An Openness to Misreading: The Risks of Informality
Works Cited
Index