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Modernist heresies : British literary history, 1883-1924 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franke, Damon, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Religion and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Religion and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Christian heretics > Great Britain > History.
Christian heresies in literature.
Paganism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The heretical vintage of modernism
  • Part I: The academy of modern heretics. A society of heretics; The early years of the Cambridge heretics, 1910-14; Aesthetics and the modern heretics
  • Part II: Modernist literary heresies. Canonical transformations; Literary paganism and the heresy of syncretism; Fictions, figurative heresy, and the roots of English.