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Reconstructing Modernism by Ashley Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Ashley Maher

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Reconstructing Modernism by Ashley Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Reconstructing Modernism by Ashley Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Reconstructing Modernism by Ashley Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments aboutarchitecture led to innovations in literature, as well as to redesigns in the concept of modernism itself. While the city has long been a focus of literary modernist studies, architectural modernism has never had its due. Scholars usually characterize architectural modernism as a parallel modernism or even an incompatible modernism to literature. Giving special attention to dystopian classics Brave NewWorld and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this study argues that sustained attention to modern architecture shaped mid-century authors' political and aesthetic commitments. After many writers deemed modernist architects to be agents for communism and other collectivist movements, they squared themselves - andliterary modernist detachment and aesthetic autonomy - against the seemingly tyrannical utopianism of modern architecture; literary aesthetic qualities were reclaimed as political qualities. In this way, Reconstructing Modernism redraws the boundaries of literary modernist studies: rather thansimply adding to its canon, it argues that the responsibility for defining literary modernism for the mid-century public was shared by an incredible variety of authors - Edwardians, modernists, satirists, and even anti-modernists. | Reconstructing Modernism by Ashley Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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