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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Parkes, Adam

Titel

Modernism and the aristocracy : monsters of English privilege

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2023]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The early twentieth century saw a radical redrawing of Britain's social and political map as its hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. This book traces the literary consequences of the modernist preoccupation with aristocracy that this social change inspired.
• Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Aristocracy Unmade and Remade -- 1 Hierarchies of Idiocy: Stupidity and Intelligence -- I. Good and Bad Stupidity -- II. Intellectual Imbeciles -- III. This Parrot House of Stupid Chatter -- IV. Shakespeare and Stratford's Village Idiot -- V. Too Simple to Be Interesting -- VI. A Small Caste of Experts -- VII. Too Much Interested in Beauty -- VIII. One Clever Man and Two Idiots -- IX. Hierarchy of Idiocies -- 2 The Noble Style: Aristocratic Boredom -- I. Boredom and Hierarchy -- II. Bowen's Boredom -- III. Waugh's Waiting -- IV. After Boredom -- 3 Aches, Howls, and Holes: Country-House Nostalgia -- I. Magic Circles -- II. Nostalgia and Nausea -- III. Noble Ruined Haciendas -- IV. Wragby Revisited -- V. Circle, Hole, Ellipsis -- VI. Eliot's Knot -- 4 Hieroglyphic Worlds: Transatlantic Sophistication -- I. American Questions -- II. Dukes without Titles -- III. Labyrinth, Pyramid, Lava -- IV. Labyrinth of the Peerage -- V. Exquisite Intimacy -- 5 Capricious Benevolence: Kindness and Cruelty -- I. Genre Questions -- II. Good People -- III. No More Feudal Atmosphere -- IV. Symbolic Paralysis -- V. Tenderness -- VI. Misanthropic Benevolence -- VII. Against Tame Reading -- VIII. Cool Delight -- Coda: Monsters after Modernism -- Works Used by Permission -- Select Bibliography -- Index.