| Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society Contributor(s): Trotter, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198187556 ISBN-13: 9780198187554 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $185.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2001 Annotation: What provoked the fierce and systematic "will to experiment" that was Modernism? Seeking an answer to this question, David Trotter examines the careers of Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis as well as the early psychiatric literature and case-histories of paranoia. The result is a new and unexpected approach to the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture that currently characterize the study of the period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 823.910 |
| LCCN: 2001032869 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.8" W x 8.72" (1.19 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What provoked the fierce and systematic will to experiment that was Modernism? Seeking an answer to this question, David Trotter examines the careers of Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis as well as the early psychiatric literature and case-histories of paranoia. The result is a new and unexpected approach to the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture that currently characterize the study of the period. |