Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521814997)

Louise Williams explores the cyclical nature of historical memory in the work of five major Modernists: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Ford and Lawrence. These Modernists, Williams argues, started their careers with historical assumptions derived from the nineteenth century. But their views on the universal structure of history, the abandonment of progress and the adoption of a cyclical sense of the past, were the result of the important conflicts and changes within the Modernist period. This wide ranging and inter-disciplinary study will be essential reading for anyone interested in modernist writing.

Author: Louise Blakeney Williams
ISBN-10: 0521814995
ISBN-13: 9780521814997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/04/2002
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d