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Addressed to scholars of modernism, this book tells a story about the origins of liberal international order in modernist circles that will engage readers interested in the prehistory of our own moment of crisis in liberal world order.

Table of Contents
1. The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order; 2. Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf; 3. The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot; 4. Typewriter fiction at the secretariat; 5. Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: René Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay.

Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 29 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9781108494564
      978-1108494564
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Addressed to scholars of modernism, this book tells a story about the origins of liberal international order in modernist circles that will engage readers interested in the prehistory of our own moment of crisis in liberal world order.

      Table of Contents
      1. The queer modernist origins of interwar liberal order; 2. Friends and enemies: liberal order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf; 3. The artist as clerk: debt, paperwork, and liberal order in T. S. Eliot; 4. Typewriter fiction at the secretariat; 5. Black modernist internationalisms between the wars: René Maran, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay.

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