Lateness and modern European literature / Ben Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, Ben, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--19th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

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

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Ben Hutchinson proposes a major new reading of modern literature understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of chronology and imitation, he argues that lateness can be understood as an expression of modernity's quest for legitimacy.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print:.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 5, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-108034-9

0-19-182157-8