Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880}}}1922 [Hardcover]

Ardis questions commonly held views of the radical nature of literary modernism.In Modernism and Cultural Conflict, Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of literary modernism's radicalness. She positions the men of 1914 , as Wyndham Lewis's called the coterie of writers centred around Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce , as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural work of literature in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, she reclaims key instances of non-modernist aesthetic production associated with British socialism and feminism of the period.In Modernism and Cultural Conflict, Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of literary modernism's radicalness. She positions the men of 1914 , as Wyndham Lewis's called the coterie of writers centred around Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce , as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural work of literature in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, she reclaims key instances of non-modernist aesthetic production associated with British socialism and feminism of the period.Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of radical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. She depicts the men of 1914, (as Wyndham Lewis called the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural objectives of British literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic effort associated with British socialism and feminism of the period.Acknowledgements; Introduction: rethinking modernism, remapping the turn of the twentieth century; 1. Beatrice Webb and the 'serious' artist; 2. Inventing literary tradition, ghosting Oscar Wilde and the Victorian fin de si?cle; 3. The Lost Girl, Tarr, and the 'moment' of modernism; 4. Mapping the middlebrow in Edwardian England; 5. 'lS#