We Speak a Different Tongue: Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890-1939 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443877022)

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We Speak a Different Tongue: Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890-1939

$81.95

We Speak a Different Tongue: Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890-1939

$81.95
Format: Hardcover
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We Speak a Different Tongue: Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890-1939 challenges the critical practice of privileging modernism. In so doing, the volume makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates about re-visioning literary modernism, questioning its canon, and challenging its aesthetic parameters. By utilizing the term modernity rather than modernism, the 16 essays housed in this volume foreground the writers who have been marginalised by both their contemporary modernist writers and literary scholars, while exploring the way in which these authors responded to the tensions, disruptions and challenges of modernity through the expansion of subject matter or through formal innovations that are not always consonant with those associated with modernist experimentation. At the same time, the essays collected here incorporate alternative perspectives within modernist practice itself while examining the late-modernist writers whose work may, in some aspects, resonate with earlier modernist experimentation, but also may be decidedly distinct from it. Beginning with discussion on modernity and its relation to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century social and political context, the volume covers a wide range of the authors, from the well-known, like Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Victoria Cross, H. G. Wells, George Orwell, and D. H. Lawrence, and rebelling female mavericks, May Sinclair, Charlotte Mew, Vita Sackville West, and Djuna Barnes, to lesser-known writers such as Rayner Heppenstall and Jean Toomer.

Author: Yoonjoung Choi
ISBN-10: 1443877026
ISBN-13: 9781443877022
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2015
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
By Yoonjoung Choi
By Yoonjoung Choi
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Anthony Patterson is Assistant Professor of English at Celal Bayar University in Manisa, Turkey. He has published articles on a number of writers in the late Victorian and Edwardian period. His monograph Mrs Grundy's Enemies: Censorship, Realist Fiction and the Politics of Sexual Representation was published by Peter Lang in 2013. He is also the co-editor, with Marilena Zackheos, of Vile Women: Challenging Representations of Female Evil in Fact Fiction and Mythology. His chapter Social Realism and the Short Story will be published in the Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story in 2015. Yoonjoung Choi is a Teaching Associate at Durham University, UK. She has published articles on H. G. Wells, decadence, fiction of the Fin-de-siecle, and Bakhtin. She co-edited The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (EUP, 2015). She also teaches Translation Studies at Durham University and Korean Language at University of Leeds.

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