Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
ISBN:
9780191534379
Content:
Anglo-American modernist writing and the modern mass democratic state emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Rachel Potter charts the changes in the ideas of democracy and discusses the wide range of reactions to these changes. She argues that modernist poems were shaped by rapidly evolving and complicated ideas of democracy.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. Unacknowledged Legislators: Modernist Poetry and Democracy -- Chapter 1. 'No artist can ever love democracy': Modernism and Democracy 1907-1914 -- Liberalism before the First World War -- Ego Vogues: The Philosophical Attack on Democracy -- The English Reception of Stirner and Nietzsche: 1907-1914 -- Feminist Egoists: 1907-1914 -- Chapter 2. Modernist Literature: Individualism and Authority -- T. E. Hulme, Rousseau, and Democracy -- Ezra Pound, Freedom of Expression, and Bourgeois Women: 1911-1915 -- 'We make you a present of our votes. Only leave works of art alone': Futurism and Vorticism -- Skewing Art and Sex: Tarr and the Critique of Mimesis -- The War, Mass Democracy, and the Individual: 1917-1924 -- The Post-War Average: The New Democratic Standard -- Women Egoists -- Chapter 3. H.D.: Egoist Modernism -- H.D., the New Freewoman, and Egoism -- Romantic or Classic?: H.D.'s Early Poems -- 'Some outer horror': The Language of Poetry -- 'Unacknowledged Legislators': Modernist Poets -- Men and Women: H.D. on Lawrence -- Recognition in H.D.'s Mature Poetry -- Egocentric History: Trilogy -- Chapter 4. T. S. Eliot, Women, and Democracy -- Romanticism and Classicism -- Bourgeois Women in Eliot's Early Poems -- Democratized Voices: Ara Vos Prec and The Waste Land -- 'Authority not democracy': Eliot's Essays of the 1920s -- Against Liberalism: After Strange Gods -- Chapter 5. Mina Loy: Pyscho-Democracy -- Women of the Future: Loy's Feminism, 1910-1916 -- Virgins and Erotic Garbage: Loy's Early Poems -- Loy's Psycho-Democracy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199273935
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199273935
Additional Edition:
Print version Modernism and Democracy : Literary Culture 1900-1930
Language:
English
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