Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367667344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str.

Michael Shallcross

Opis

This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have previously been considered in relation to one another, the dynamic has typically been conceived as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton’s advocacy of popular culture and modernist liter

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Contents

Introduction: Sublime Vulgarity, Fanatical Play

1 The Chesterbentley: A Fin-de-Siècle Nonsense Friendship

2 The Ethics of Travesty: Chesterton’s Ludicrous Performance on the Edwardian Literary Stage

3 A Hundred Visions and Revisions: Chesterton Refracted through the Avant-Garde of 1910

4 We Discharge Ourselves on Both Sides: The Parodic Commerce of Chesterton and the Men of 1914

5 Le Mob c’est Moi: 1920s Modernism as Monstrous Carnival

6 Audacious Reconciliation: The Human Circulating Library of Late Modernism

O autorze

Michael Shallcross is an independent researcher, based in York, UK.