Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics

by Charles Ferrall

• ISBN13: 9780521120821
• ISBN10: 0521120829
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Charles Ferrall argues that the politics of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis was a response to the separation of art from an increasingly industrialized society. Fascism became attractive to these writers because it promised to reintegrate art into society while simultaneously guaranteeing its autonomy. Yet with the exception of Pound and Yeats, these writers all finally rejected fascism, preferring instead to see the aesthetic as a sphere in permanent opposition to liberal democracy, rather than the basis for a new social order.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

W. B. Yeats and the family romance of Irish Nationalism

Ezra Pound and the poetics of literalism

'Neither Living nor Dead': T. S. Eliot and the uncanny

The homosocial and Fascism in D. H. Lawrence

'Always a Deux': Wyndham Lewis and his doubles

Notes

Works cited

Index

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