Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel

by Robert Higney

How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in literary and intellectual culture. In Institutional Character, Robert Higney investigates the role of the modernist novel in this reevaluation, revealing how for a diverse array of modernist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813948592
• ISBN13: 9780813948591
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"