Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 /

"In Modernist Heresies, Damon Franke presents the discourse of heresy as central to the intellectual history of the origins of British modernism. The book examines heretical discourses from literature and culture of the fin de siecle and the Edwardian period in order to establish continuities b...

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Main Author: Franke, Damon, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The heretical vintage of modernism
  • Part I: The academy of modern heretics. A society of heretics; The early years of the Cambridge heretics, 1910-14; Aesthetics and the modern heretics
  • Part II: Modernist literary heresies. Canonical transformations; Literary paganism and the heresy of syncretism; Fictions, figurative heresy, and the roots of English
  • After words: The "empires of the mind" and the control of heresy
  • Appendix: Meetings of the Heretics Society, Cambridge, 1909-24.