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The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism
Sam Wiseman
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
The work of English modernists in the 1920s and 1930s – particularly D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf – often expresses a fundamental ambivalence towards the social, cultural and technological developments of the period. These writers collectively embody the tensions and contradictions which infiltrate English modernism as the interwar period progresses, combining a profound sense of attachment to rural place and traditions with a similarly strong attraction to metropolitan modernity – the latter being associated with transience, possibility, literary innovation, cosmopolitanism, and new developments in technology and transportation. In this book, Sam Wiseman analyses key texts ... Read more
The work of English modernists in the 1920s and 1930s – particularly D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf – often expresses a fundamental ambivalence towards the social, cultural and technological developments of the period. These writers collectively embody the tensions and contradictions which infiltrate English modernism as the interwar period progresses, combining a profound sense of attachment to rural place and traditions with a similarly strong attraction to metropolitan modernity – the latter being associated with transience, possibility, literary innovation, cosmopolitanism, and new developments in technology and transportation. In this book, Sam Wiseman analyses key texts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780990895886
SKU
V9780990895886
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About Sam Wiseman
Sam Wiseman is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt and will be teaching at the university upon completion of this project. He has recently presented academic papers on M.R. James and Edith Nesbit, and is working on an article that will examine the role of tidal causeways in texts by Angela Carter, Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley. ... Read more
Reviews for The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism
Wiseman's new book combines probing analysis of major canonical modernist authors with detailed scrutiny of critically overlooked interwar authors such as J. C. Powys and Mary Butts. This original project raises urgent questions about the cultural politics of space and place, and especially interwar fiction's intense engagement with, and representation of, 'wild', 'feral' or 'unhusbanded' localities on the fringes of ... Read more