Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence

In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory that begins with an exposition of the English Romantic poets and ends with a reevaluation of modernists as varied as W. B. Yeats, Henry James, Joseph Conrad. Rebecca West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, and, centrally, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Sherry's hugely ambitious study will be essential reading for anyone working in modernist studies and twentieth-century literature more generally.

Author: Vincent Sherry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/03/2019
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 9.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781107437500

About the Author
Sherry, Vincent: - Vincent Sherry is Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis. He is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Modernism and the author of several books in the field. Sherry is currently working on A Literary History of the European War of 1914-1918.