Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty

ISBN-13: 9780415541725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Andrew John Miller

Opis

Miller describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the 20th century - Yeats, Elliot and Woolf - wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among and within independent nation-states seemed inescapable.

Spis treści

Preface; Chapter 1: Crisis of Sovereignty: Global Civil War in Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf; Chapter 2: Civil Wars of Language: Irish Performativity in Yeats; Chapter 3: "Social Welfare Dream": Sovereignty, Responsibility, and Biopolitics in Yeats; Chapter 4: "Compassing Material Ends": Sovereignty, Pluralism, and Professionalism in Eliot; Chapter 5: Between Nation and Profession: Aesthetic Sovereignty in Woolf’s Between the Acts; Chapter 6: "Traditions of the Private House": Sovereignty, Civility, and Ownership; Notes; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Andrew John Miller is Associate Professor in the Départment d’études anglaises at the Université de Montréal.