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Interwar modernism and the liberal world order : offices, institutions, and aesthetics after 1919 /

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Main Author: Hankins, Gabriel, 1981- (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > History > 20th century.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Liberalism > History > 20th century.
Liberalism in literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: modernism against the liberal world
  • The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order
  • Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf
  • The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot
  • Typewriter fiction at the Secretariat
  • Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: RenĂ© Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay
  • Coda: brief history of an antipathy: liberal order and modernist criticism.