Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Alice Reeve-Tucker, Nathan Waddell (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 237
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-18
The Point of It....Pages 19-38
A Likely Impossibility: The Good Soldier, the Modernist Novel, and Quasi-Familial Transcendence....Pages 39-55
Providing Ridicule: Wyndham Lewis and Satire in the ‘Postwar-to-end-war World’....Pages 56-73
Naomi Mitchison: Fantasy and Intermodern Utopia....Pages 74-92
Lesbian Modernism and Utopia: Sexology and the Invert in Katharine Burdekin’s Fiction....Pages 93-110
Syncretic Utopia, Transnational Provincialism: Rex Warner’s The Wild Goose Chase ....Pages 111-129
The Role of Mathematics in Modernist Utopia: Imaginary Numbers in Zamyatin’s We and Pynchon’s Against the Day ....Pages 130-147
The Two Hotels of Elizabeth Bowen: Utopian Leisure in the Age of Mechanized Hospitality....Pages 148-167
‘Seeing beneath the formlessness’: James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Restorative Urbanism....Pages 168-181
Uncovering the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism....Pages 182-203
Back Matter....Pages 204-226

✦ Subjects

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

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