Sherry, Vincent B.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The codes of decadence: modernism and its discontents — 1. The time of decadence –The cultivation of decay and the prerogatives of modernism — 2. The demonstrable decadence of modernist novels — Imagism — 3. Ezra Pound, 1906-1920 — Reforming decadence: late romanticism, modernism, and the politics of literary history — 4. T.S. Eliot, 1910-1922 — Afterword: Barnes and Beckett, Petropi of the twilight.
- In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a re-evaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry’s hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally — Provided by publisher.
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