Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the Subject

✍ Scribed by Rochelle Rives (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-19
The Dissociation of Personality....Pages 21-46
The Impersonal Contract....Pages 47-80
A “Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy”....Pages 81-112
Problem Space....Pages 113-147
A “Solicitude for Things”....Pages 149-174
Conclusion....Pages 175-180
Back Matter....Pages 181-219

✦ Subjects

North American Literature;Twentieth-Century Literature;British and Irish Literature;Literary Theory;Cultural Theory;Aesthetics