Modernism, empire, world literature / Joe Cleary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.), author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

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

American literature.

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

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

English literature--Irish authors.

Ireland.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 318 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the literary world system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary "renaissances" and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based modernists produced dazzling new works that challenged London's or Paris's authority to determine literary value and propounded their own notions of critical merit, these later codified as "Modernism." However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed the literature that had once challenged English and French literary authority to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the cold war and to contest Soviet conceptions of "world literature." Here, in strong readings of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of the rise and fall of European and American empires and disputed histories of "world literature.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. `A Language That Was English': Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire

2. `It Uccedes Lundun': Logics of Literary Decline and `Renaissance' from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound

3. `The Insolence of Empire': The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land

4. Contesting Wills: National Mimetic Rivalries, World War and World Literature in Ulysses

5. `That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House': American Ascendancy and American Epic in The Great Gatsby and Long Day's Journey into Night

6. `A Wreath of Flies?': Omeros, Epic Achievement and Impasse in `the Program Era'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Cleary, Joe (Joseph N.) Modernism, empire, world literature

ISBN:

9781108492355

1108492355

9781108729277

1108729274

OCLC:

1226908886

Publisher Number:

40030709517