Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924

by Damon Franke

Book Overview

In Modernist Heresies, Damon Franke presents the discourse of heresy as central to the intellectual history of the origins of British modernism. The book examines heretical discourses from literature and culture of the fin de si cle and the Edwardian period in order to establish continuities between Victorian blasphemy and modernist obscenity by tracing the dialectic of heresy and orthodoxy, and the pragmatic shifting of both heterodox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814257208
• ISBN13: 9780814257203
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"