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Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism
by Patricia E Chu  Publisher Comments An original study of the impact of increasing government controls on literary modernism....
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Bloomsbury Recalled
by Quentin Bell Publisher Comments In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people...
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Modernism (Introductions to British Literature and Culture)
by Leigh Wilson Publisher Comments This accessible introduction to Modernism and its contexts from 1890-1939 includes an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including arts, science and philosophy and surveys the developments in key genres including discussion...
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Poets and Pals of Picardy: A Weekend on the Somme (Cameos of the Western Front)
by Mary Ellen Freeman Synopsis As with previous books in the Cameos of the Western Front series, Poets and Pals of Picardy concentrates on the human dimension of the great battles of World War I, in this case in the Somme sector. Because of the great diversity of the British forces...
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Eliot, Joyce and Company
by Stanley Sultan Publisher Comments In this new look at Modernism, Sultan illuminates the shared enterprise of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. The author discusses their seminal works, considering new aspects of the company they kept, and revealing their rich connection with the writers who...
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Bloomsbury Recalled
by Quentin Bell Synopsis In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people...
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Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness
by Maren Tova Linett Publisher Comments Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness explores the aesthetic and political roles performed by Jewish characters in women??'s fiction between the World Wars. Focusing mainly on British modernism, it argues that female authors enlist a multifaceted vision of...
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The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
by Paul Reitter Publisher Comments In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus’s spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which...
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British Modernism and Censorship
by Celia Marshik Publisher Comments Government censorship was a benefit as well as a constraint for many modernists, as this enlightening study shows....
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Basil Street Blues
by Michael Holroyd Synopsis Part detective story, part family saga, and part oblique voyage into self-discovery, this memoir of an extravagant heritage is drawn from the author's parents' recollections of their early lives....
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The Novel Now: Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
by Richard Bradford Publisher Comments The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction....
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British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984
by Alvin Sullivan Review Edited by a specialist in contemporary British literature, the 108 signed critiques are primarily by academicians from the US and other parts of the English-speaking world. Each of the profiles includes information such as location sources, reprint...
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The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry
by Andrew Duncan Publisher Comments This is a treatment of 40 years of British poetry from the angle of time. Readers watch the wonderful helplessness of new poetics as it struggles to free itself from the chrysalis of the old....
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Bloomsbury pie :the making of the Bloomsbury boom
by Regina Marler Book News Annotation Celebrated and maligned with equal vigor, the Bloomsbury Group is the best-documented artistic coterie in 20th century literature. This volume examines Bloomsbury's persistent allure and tracks the resurgence of interest in them, from a handful of...
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Minor characters :a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac
by Joyce Johnson Publisher Comments A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one womans coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation...
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Basil Street Blues
by Michael Holroyd Publisher Comments This, in his fashion, is Michael Holroyd's autobiography, a biography of a biographer, and a continuation of his never-ending love affair with human nature. Part detective story, part family-saga and part an oblique voyage of self discovery, Basil Street...
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Counterrealism & Indo Anglian Fiction
by Chelv Kanaganayakam Publisher Comments What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages...
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Shaw, Lady Gregory & the Abbey: A Correspondence & a Record
by Dan H Laurence Publisher Comments Bernard Shaw, who made in reputation as a playwright in London, and Augusta Gregory, founder-director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublins, are generally considered as belonging to different theatrical traditions. But in 1909, when the Abbey produced The...
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Frances Partridge Diaries 1939-1972
by Frances Partridge Synopsis Frances Partridge's diaries, written without thought of publication, chronicle the remarkable life a member of the Bloomsbury Set and a pacifist whose diaries rank amongst the greatest of the 20th century....
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Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa & Carrington
by Mary Ann Caws Book News Annotation A look at the lives of three Bloomsbury women--a great writer (Virginia Woolf), Virginia's sister and talented painter (Vanessa Bell), and an unsuccessful, reclusive artist (Dora Carrington)--that is also an intimate look at friendship, artistic...
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