Modernism and democracy : literary culture, 1900-1930 /
Anglo-American modernist writing and the modern mass democratic state emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Rachel Potter charts the changes in the ideas of democracy and discusses the wide range of reactions to these changes. She argues that modernist poems were shaped by rapidl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Summary: | Anglo-American modernist writing and the modern mass democratic state emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Rachel Potter charts the changes in the ideas of democracy and discusses the wide range of reactions to these changes. She argues that modernist poems were shaped by rapidly evolving and complicated ideas of democracy. - ;Anglo-American modernist writing and modern mass democratic states emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Yet writers such as T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Ford Madox Ford were notoriously hostile to mode. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-194). |
| ISBN: | 0191534374 9780191534379 9780199273935 0199273936 1281370193 9781281370198 9786611370190 6611370196 |
