Modernist Impersonalities
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Modernist Impersonalities

Affect, Authority, and the Subject

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Modernist Impersonalities

Affect, Authority, and the Subject

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Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority, and the Subject
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Modernism and the “Escape from Personality”
  6. Chapter 1: “The Dissociation of Personality”: Space and the Impersonal Ideal
  7. Chapter 2: The Impersonal Contract: H.D. and the Limits of Poetic Authority
  8. Chapter 3: A “Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy”: D. H. Lawrence, Modernist Violence, and Impersonal Narrative
  9. Chapter 4: Problem Space: Wyndham Lewis, Mary Butts, and the Impersonal Object
  10. Chapter 5: A “Solicitude for Things: ”Elizabeth Bowen and the Bildungsroman
  11. Conclusion: Emotion after The Death of the Heart
  12. Notes
  13. Index