The Nature of Modernism: Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew

ISBN-13: 9780367886059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Elizabeth Black

Opis

This is the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, it argues that within British modernist poetry there is a clear interest in the natural world. Readings of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, E

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Modernism, Nature and Theory

2. Modernism in Ecocritical Thought

3. Edward Thomas: The Path to Ecological Modernism

4. T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

5. T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets

6. Edith Sitwell

7. Charlotte Mew

Conclusion

O autorze

Elizabeth Black is a Writing Tutor and Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK