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Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence
Contributor(s): Sherry, Vincent (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107437504     ISBN-13: 9781107437500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 809.911
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 9.6" W x 9" L (1.10 lbs) 342 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
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Publisher Description:
In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a reevaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad. Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry's hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally.

Contributor Bio(s): Sherry, Vincent: - Vincent Sherry is Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis. He is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Modernism and the author of several books in the field. Sherry is currently working on A Literary History of the European War of 1914-1918.
 
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