Conservative modernists : literature and Tory politics in Britain, 1900-1920 / Christos Hadjiyiannis.
Despite sustained scholarly interest in the politics of modernism, astonishingly little attention has been paid to its relationship to Conservatism. Yet modernist writing was imbricated with Tory rhetoric and ideology from when it emerged in the Edwardian era. By investigating the many intersections...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : modernists against modernity
- Conservative Party crisis : Tory propaganda, imagist poetics
- Bringing poetry and politics back to Earth : Tory ideology and classical modernism
- The writer as conservative statesman : modernist theories of inspiration
- Against representation : conservatism and abstract art
- War, duty, sacrifice : anti-pacifism and objective ethics
- Afterword : afterlives.