Modernism and the crisis of sovereignty /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miller, Andrew John
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2008]
Series:	Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 4.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. National characteristics in literature. Sovereignty in literature. Geopolitics in literature. Authors, English > 20th century > Political and social views. Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939 > Criticism and interpretation. Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Criticism and interpretation. Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Crisis of sovereignty : global civil war in Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf
Civil wars of language : Irish performativity in Yeats
"Social welfare dream" : sovereignty, responsibility, and biopolitics in Yeats
"Compassing material ends" : sovereignty, pluralism, and professionalism in Eliot
Between nation and profession : aesthetic sovereignty in Woolf's Between the acts
"Traditions of the private house" : sovereignty, civility, and ownership.