The reimagining of place in English modernism / Sam Wiseman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiseman, Sam, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

166 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Clemson, South Carolina] : Clemson University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"The work of English modernists in the 1920s and 1930s - particularly D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - often expresses a fundamental ambivalence towards the social, cultural and technological developments of the period. These writers collectively embody the tensions and contradictions which infiltrate English modernism as the interwar period progresses, combining a profound sense of attachment to rural place and traditions with a similarly strong attraction to metropolitan modernity - the latter being associated with transience, possibility, literary innovation, cosmopolitanism, and new developments in technology and transportation. In this book, Sam Wiseman analyses key texts by these four authors, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan"--Back cover

Contents:

I Regions, Revenants, Reimaginings 1

II Cosmopolitan and Technological Perspectives 5

III Chapter Overview 8

1 Strange Old Feelings Wake in the Soul: Ambivalent Landscapes in D.H. Lawrence 13

1 Everything Has Suffered Change 13

II A Fragment of the Shell of Life 19

III If We Had Tree-Speech 27

IV Over the Border 34

2 The Pen of a Traveller, the Ink-Blood of Home: John Cowper Powys' Imaginative Realism 43

I Daydreaming of England 43

II Phantasmal Worlds 50

III A Thousand Tangents 56

IV Imagination Recreates the World 63

3 In Two Worlds at Once: Animism, Borders and Liminality in Mary Butts 73

I The Sacred Game 73

II Their World and His Own 81

III Wonder Is the Answer 89

IV On All Sides But One 96

4 All Boundaries Are Lost: Travel, Fragmentation and Interconnection in Virginia Woolf 105

I Nothing Settles or Stays Unbroken 105

II Shells, Bones and Silence 112

III Odd Affinities 118

IV We Are the Thing Itself 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780990895886

0990895882

OCLC:

942678741

Publisher Number:

99966760889