Lateness and modern European literature /
Ben Hutchinson proposes a major new reading of modern literature understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of chronology and imitation, he argues that lateness can be understoo...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Lateness and Modern European Literature; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction: 'The Old Age of the World'; THE LEGITIMACY OF LATENESS; THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LATENESS; THE ANXIETY OF LATENESS; NOTES; PART I: FROM LATE TO POST-ROMANTICISM; 1: The Spirit of the Age; NOTES; 2: 'A Book Read to its End': The Post-Napoleonic Consciousness; NOTES; 3: Late Romanticism and 'Lastness'; LASTNESS VS. LATENESS: SURVIVOR FIGURES IN COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH; VIVITUR INGENIO: BYRON, BEDDOES, CAMPBELL; 'THE ANTE-PESTILENTIAL RACE' : MARY SHELLEY'S THE LAST MAN; NOTES
- 4: French Romanticism and the Spirit of the Past'THIS WORLD OF IDLERS': JEUNE-FRANCE, NEO-CATHOLICS, SAINT-SIMONIANS; CHATEAUBRIAND AND 'AN EXHAUSTED RACE'; ALFRED DE MUSSET AND 'A WORLD TOO OLD'; NOTES; 5: Epigonentum in Germany of the 1830s; LATENESS AS 'MORAL SEA-SICKNESS': KARL IMMERMANN'S DIE EPIGONEN; YOUNG GERMANY: ZERRISSENE, ZWEIFLER, AND EUROPAMÜDEN; HEINRICH HEINE, ROMANTIQUE DÉFROQUÉ; NOTES; PART II: DECADENCE; NOTES; 6: Modes of Falling: Romantic Décadence in the 1830s; NOTES; 7: 'Ageing Passions': 1850s-60s; NOTES; 8: French Models of Lateness in the 1880s
- 'CORRUPTIONS OF STYLE'UNE HARPE MINEURE: DECADENCE AS A MINOR LITERATURE?; 1884: 'A DECREPIT CIVILIZATION'; NOTES; 9: English Decadence: 'Late-Learning' in a French School; WALTER PATER AND 'ARTIFICIAL ARTLESSNESS'; GEORGE MOORE: 'YOUNG MAN', OLD WORLD; HENRY JAMES: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?; NOTES; 10: Friedrich Nietzsche and the 'Latecomers' of Modernity; NOTES; 11: 'Fin de Siècle and No End': The Austrian Art of Being Late; NOTES; PART III: MODERNISM; NOTES; 12: Lateness as 'Embarrassment': Paul Valéry; NOTES
- 13: Lateness as 'Decline': Oswald Spengler, Nicholas Berdyaev, Helmuth Plessner, Arnold GehlenNOTES; 14: Lateness as 'a European Language': Theodor W. Adorno and Late Style; NOTES; 15: Lateness as 'Hollowing Out': Thomas Mann, Ernst Bloch, Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence; NOTES; 16: Lateness as 'Myth': T.S. Eliot, Eugène Jolas, Gottfried Benn, Hermann Broch; NOTES; 17: Lateness as 'Eschatology': Futurism, Expressionism, Decadent Modernism; NOTES; Epilogue: The Vertigo of Lateness; NOTES; Bibliography; PRIMARY; SECONDARY; Websites Consulted; Index