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The extinct scene : late modernism and everyday life /

In 1935, the English novelist Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Thomas S. (Thomas Saverance) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Modernist latitudes.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Late modernism and the outward turn
  • The last snapshot of the British intelligentsia: documentary, mass-observation and the fate of the liberal avant-garde
  • The historical novel at history's end
  • Late modernism's geopolitical imagination: everyday life in the global hot zones
  • War gothic
  • "It is de age of colonial concern": vernacular fictions and political belonging
  • Epilogue: "appointments to keep in the past."