High & Low Moderns: Literature & Culture 1889-1939 Hardcover - 1996
by Maria DiBattista (Editor); Lucy McDiarmid (Editor)
First line
If the British modern period must be given a starting date, we might do well to propose January 22, 1901, the day Queen Victoria died.
From the rear cover
This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque", "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories. In contributions by scholars David Bromwich, Roy Foster, Edna Longley, Louis Menand, Edward Mendelson, and others, High and Low Moderns brings these writers into critical proximity. Essays on such topics as the public mourning of Queen Victoria, Florence Farr and the "New Woman", the Edwardian Shaw, Lady Gregory's attraction to Irish felons, and the high artistic uses of low entertainments - cinema, detective fiction, and journalismintroduce a subtler model of modernism, in which "demotic" and "elite" cultural forms criticize, imitate, and address one another.
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- Title High & Low Moderns: Literature & Culture 1889-1939
- Author Maria DiBattista (Editor); Lucy McDiarmid (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition,
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1996-12-05
- ISBN 9780195082661 / 0195082664
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.36 x 0.93 in (23.77 x 16.15 x 2.36 cm)
- Reading level 1530
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects English literature - 20th century - History, English literature - 19th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95053155
- Dewey Decimal Code 820.900
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