Lexington Books
Pages: 140
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-2805-4 • Hardback • December 2017 • $94.00 • (£72.00)
978-1-4985-2806-1 • eBook • December 2017 • $89.00 • (£68.00)
Petar Penda is associate professor of English at the University of Banja Luka.
Introduction
1.Modernism Reconsidered/ Reconsidering Modernism
2.Politics, Sex, and Identity in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3.Private and Public Self: Ideology of the Aesthetic in Mrs. Dalloway
4.To the Lighthouse—Structure Hidden Behind ‘Chaotic’ Narrative Technique
5. Politics of Multiple Identities in Orlando
6.Aesthetics of Disorder in The Waste Land
7.Aesthetics of Nihilism: Convention in the Service of Ideology inT. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
8.Conclusion
Petar Penda’s contextual approach to the work of Lawrence, Woolf, and Eliot reads the authors within and against the social systems of the early twentieth century. In part a consideration of the literary work’s relation to history, in part an exploration of the intricate connections between the ideologies of the text and those of the author, this book considers what no other study of Modernist aesthetics has looked at before: the politics of social and class consciousness.
— Wim Van-Mierlo, Loughborough University
No question about modernism could me more important, or more pressing: What really was the ideology of modernist aesthetics, in all its complexity, between the extremes of subversive and reactionary politics? Penda’s answer to this question offers indispensable new insight into the work of the major modernists, a powerful and timely redefinition of the politics of modernist literature.
— Jesse Matz, Kenyon College