Contemporaries and Snobs

by Laura Riding and Laura (Riding) Jackson

This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs , a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling account--by turns personal, by turns historical--of how the institutionalization of modernism denuded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081735767X
• ISBN13: 9780817357672
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"