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The island : war and belonging in Auden's England / Nicholas Jenkins.
Van Pelt Library PR6001.U4 Z75345 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Nicholas (Nicholas Richard), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
- Auden, W. H.
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Friends and associates.
- World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Nationalism and literature--England--History--20th century.
- Nationalism and literature.
- England--In literature.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 748 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Using Auden's work of the 1930s and 1940s as a case study, The Island describes his mid-twentieth-century shift from lyrics of poetic nationalism to a poetics of lyric cosmopolitanism."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue. Caliban's island
- Part One. Marsh
- The Historical Child: Music, War, and Sex, 1907-1922
- Part Two. Moor
- Mining the Countryside: Haunted Pastoralism, 1922-1925
- The Rhino and the Child: Abject Modernism, 1925-1927
- The English Keynote: Violent Words, 1927-1928
- Strange Meetings: English in Germany, 1928-1929
- Part Three. Garden
- The English Cell: Dreams and Visions, 1929-1932
- The Flood: Fear and Love, 1932-1935
- Images in the Dark: Prophecies and Change, 1935-1936
- Epilogue. The Island's Caliban.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674025226
- 0674025229
- OCLC:
- 1405905767
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