Transatlantic Modernism : : Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction / / Martin Halliwell.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623938);Transatlantic Modernism traces the intersection of artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this perceptive study shows how early twentieth-ce...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Modernity and the Crisis of Morals
- Part I Naturalism and Decadence
- 1 Decadence, Naturalism and the Morality of Writing (Huysmans, Wilde, Norris, Wharton)
- 2 Books and Ruins: Abject Decadence in Gide and Mann
- Part II Symbolic Centres of Modernism
- 3 Extremist Modernism: The Avant- Garde and the Limits of Art (Tzara, Huelsenbeck, Breton, Aragon)
- 4 Moral Regeneration and Moral Bankruptcy: Conrad, Faulkner and Idiocy
- Part III Sexual and Cultural Difference
- 5 American Expatriate Fictions and the Ethics of Sexual Difference (Stein, Hemingway, Miller, Nin)
- 6 The Blind Impress of Modernity: Lorca, Kafka and New York
- Part IV Modernist Trickery
- 7 The Modernist Picaresque: Moralists without Qualities (Musil, Hesse, Hurston, Roth)
- 8 Myths of the Magician: Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann and Nazi Germany
- Conclusion: Liberating the Fear of Modernity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index