Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History

by Gayle Rogers and Gayle Rogers

Book Overview

How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with Europe-provided an animating impulse for interwar literary modernism and for new conceptions of cosmopolitanism. Drawing on works in a variety of genres, Gayle Rogers reconstructs an archive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190207337
• ISBN13: 9780190207335
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.1"