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Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models of modernist and twentieth-century literary history. An international group of scholars considers works by E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Naomi Mitchison, Katharine Burdekin, Rex Warner, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Bowen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Ernst Bloch. In doing so, this volume's contributors prompt new reflections on key aspects of utopianism in experimental twentieth-century literature and non-fictional writing; deepen literary-historical understandings of modernism's socio-political implications; and bear out the on-going relevance of modernism's explorations of utopian thought. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century will appeal to anyone with an interest in how deeply and how differently modernist writers, as well as writers influenced by or resistant to modernist styles, engaged with issues of utopianism, perfectibility, and social betterment.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Caroline Edwards, University of Lincoln, UK
Nina Engelhardt, University of Edinburgh, UK
Elizabeth English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK
David James, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Scott W. Klein, Wake Forest University, USA
Douglas Mao, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Alice Reeve-Tucker, University of Birmingham, UK
Shawna Ross, Arizona State University, USA
Glyn Salton-Cox, postgraduate researcher, USA
Nathan Waddell, University of Nottingham, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century
Editors: Alice Reeve-Tucker, Nathan Waddell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336620
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35893-5Published: 07 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34763-6Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33662-0Published: 07 May 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature, Fiction