Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order: Offices, Institutions, and Aesthetics After 1919

ISBN-13: 9781108494564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 228 str.

Gabriel Hankins

Opis

Addressed to scholars of modernism, this book tells a story about the origins of liberal international order in modernist circles that will engage readers interested in the prehistory of our own moment of crisis in liberal world order.

Spis treści

1. The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order; 2. Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf; 3. The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot; 4. Typewriter fiction at the secretariat; 5. Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: René Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay.