Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349423804)

Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

Author: M. Halliwell
ISBN-10: 1349423807
ISBN-13: 9781349423804
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d