Modernism And The Aristocracy Av Adam (Professor Of English Professor Of English University Of Georgia) Parkes

During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain''s hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation''s affairs. Widely remarked on by commentators at the time, this radical redrawing of the social and political map provoked a newly intensified fascination with the aristocracy among modern writers. Undone by history, the British aristocracy and its Anglo-Irish cousins wereremade by literary modernism. Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege is about the results of that remaking.The book traces the literary consequences of the modernist preoccupation with aristocracy in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Ford Madox Ford, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, and others writing in Britain and Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Combining an historical focus on the decades between the two world wars with close attention to the verbal textures