Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521889247)

Modernist writers in the early twentieth century aimed to write in inventive and transformative ways, but they lived in places celebrated for their association with the achievements of past generations. For E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, this contrast was strongly felt: living and writing in London, they found themselves in a city that was being fashioned as 'historic' in ways incongruous with their own critical ideals. In this innovative study, Andrea Zemgulys reads the early writings of Forster, Eliot and Woolf against the development of a growing heritage industry in England generally and London in particular. Her study offers fresh analyses of major works and a fascinating history of the making of literary and historical heritage in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.

Author: Andrea Zemgulys
ISBN-10: 0521889243
ISBN-13: 9780521889247
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/05/2008 pg. 18