This book studies the relationship between the work of 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 been figured as one of mutual hostility, grounded in Chesterton's advocacy of popular culture and modernism's appeal to a cultural elite. Shallcross complicates this binary demarcation, establishing for the first time the depth and ambivalence of Chesterton's interaction with modernism, as well as the reciprocal interest of leading modernist writers in the work of Chesterton....
This book studies the relationship between the work of G.K. Chesterton and a range of key literary modernists. When Chesterton and modernism have p...
