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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maria DiBattista; Lucy McDiarmid |
| ISBN: | 0195082664 9780195082661 |
| OCLC Number: | 33983293 |
| Description: | x, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Maria DiBattista -- [Historical soundings] -- Surviving Victoria / Jay Dickson -- [Major and minor reputations] -- T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane / David Bronwich -- Remaking Marxist criticism : Partisan review's Eliotic leftism / Harvey Teres -- Florence Farr : a "transitional woman" / A. Walton Litz -- Appendix : 'Ibsen' women" / Florence Farr -- "The business of the earth" : Edward Thomas and ecocentrism / Edna Longley -- [Edwardian miscellany] -- The Edwardian Shaw, or the modernist that never was / Nicholas Grene -- Kipling in the history of forms / Louis Menand -- How Lawrence corrected Wells; How Orwell refuted Lawrence / Edward Mendelson -- The lowly art of murder : modernism and the case of the free woman / Maria DiBattista -- [Cultural politics] -- Love, politics, and textual corruption : Mrs. O'Shea's Parnell / R.F. Foster -- The demotic Lady Gregory / Lucy McDiarmid -- Appendix : Lady Gregory's review of "Days of fear" / Frank Gallagher -- Broadcasting news from nowhere : R.B. Cunninghame Graham and the geography of politics in the 1890's / Chris GoGwilt. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid. |
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Abstract:
This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories. In contributions by scholars David Bromwich, Roy Foster, Edna Longley, Louis Menand, Edward Mendelson, and others, High and Low Moderns brings these writers into critical proximity. Essays on such topics as the public mourning of Queen Victoria, Florence Farr and the "New Woman," the Edwardian Shaw, Lady Gregory's attraction to Irish felons, and the high artistic uses of low entertainments - cinema, detective fiction, and journalismintroduce a subtler model of modernism, in which "demotic" and "elite" cultural forms criticize, imitate, and address one another.
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