Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction

By Martin Halliwell

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Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann, and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde, and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s, this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0333918843

ISBN13:9780333918845

Release Date:September 2001

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

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