Ann L. Ardis

Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Modernism and Cultural Conflict, Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of the radical nature of literary modernism. She positions the coterie of writers centred around Pound, Eliot and Joyce as one 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 modernists secured their cultural centrality, she documents 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. She recovers key instances of opposition to modernist self-fashioning in British socialism and feminism of the period. Ardis goes on to consider how literary modernism's rise to aesthetic prominence paved the way for the institutionalization of English studies through the devaluation of other aesthetic practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511058226
• Artikelnr.: 38196338

Autorenporträt

Ann L. Ardis is Associate Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Delaware. She is the author of New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism (1990) and co-editor (with Bonnie Kime Scott) of Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries: Selected Papers from the Ninth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2000) and (with Leslie Lewis) of Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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 siècle
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
Select bibliography
Index.