Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds; Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community

ISBN-13: 9781787078024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 292 str.

Laura Scuriatti

Opis

The essays in this volume analyse the significance (and failures) of literary coteries as spaces of aesthetic and political freedom. They offer an evaluation of the ethos of sociability in the women's salons of the Enlightenment, as the basis of the utopia of community and reflect on the notion of individual authorship within a group.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Ulrike Wagner: Utopias of Purposelessness: Sacred and Secular Sociability around 1800 - Francesca Chiappini: Bridges over the Atlantic: Exploring Utopia in Women's Modernism - Laura Scuriatti: Together, on Her Own: A Survey of Mina Loy's Textual Communities - Kaisa Kurikka: Renegotiating Authorship: The Case of Algot Untola - Esther Sánchez-Pardo: Progressive Intelligentsia: The Young American Critics, Utopianism and the Spirit of Dissent - Martina Rinaldi: Farley Farm: An Experiment in Artistic Utopia - Martina Ciceri: Olive Garnett and the Utopian Lure of Community: From Tolstoyan Togetherness to Anglo-Russian Aesthetics - Dorothea Schöne: Modernism and Pan-Europeanism: Utopian Concepts and Visions of the Porza Group - Isabel Wünsche: die abstrakten hannover: Utopian Designs for a New World - Reinhold J. Fäth: Meditative Modernism: Dornach 1913/Munich 1918/Stuttgart 1945.

O autorze

Laura Scuriatti is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin. She is the author of Mina Loy's Critical Modernism (University Press of Florida, 2019); she has co-edited, with Caroline Patey, the volume The Exhibit in the Text. The Museological Practices of Literature (2009) and, with Sara Fortuna, Dekalog. On Dogville (2012). She has published on Mina Loy, Ford Madox Ford, Futurism, H. G. Wells, Sacheverell Sitwell, Mario Praz.