Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence
Cambridge University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Tan boards, tan & illus. dust jacket, 333 pp., no illus. VG+. Item #154477
ISBN: 9781107079328
"Vincent Sherry reveals a new continuity in literary history. He takes the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution and reads it forward into the cataclysm of the Great War. Following this powerful trajectory, Sherry's work of literary criticism and history begins with an exposition of the English romantic poets and ends with a reevaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. This major new book will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally." (dj).
Price: $33.00