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- catalog abstract "The past few years have witnessed a resurgence in the study of British literary modernism. With recent publications on modernist American poetry and increasingly appreciative attitudes toward modern British novelists like Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster, many scholars are experiencing a renewed interest in modernism. In The Modernist as Pragmatist, Brian May investigates modernist works that have been, until recently, regarded largely as mere exercises in stale Victorian liberal ideology. Breaking from one current interpretation of Forster as an innovative and perhaps objectionable representative of modernist fictional audacity, May keenly argues that Forster is neither a traditional liberal nor an imperial modernist stylist. He is, rather, a pragmatic liberal critic of both unreconstructed Victorian liberalism and unreckoning modernist aestheticism. May also looks at the debate between two contemporary progressive pragmatists, Richard Rorty and Cornel West, who have turned to the liberalism of the past as an avenue toward the future. By bringing British literary history to American neopragmatist philosophy, May allows the reader to understand both more concretely, historically, and imaginatively. Persuasive new readings of A Passage to India, Howards End, and The Longest Journey are used to illustrate how Rorty and West offer a choice between pragmatisms.".
- catalog contributor b9681760.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Pragmatic Liberalism, Literary Modernism, and Forster -- 1. Edwardian Liberalism and Edwardian Pragmatism: Hobhouse, Hobson, Moore, Dickinson, and Masterman -- 2. Modernism and Other Modes in Forster's: The Longest Journey -- 3. Neoliberalism in Rorty and Forster: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity and Howards End -- 4. The Psychopathology of Everyday Liberalism: Howards End and A Passage to India -- 5. A Passage to India and the De-positivizing of the Sublime -- Afterword: Modern Narrative Domain and the Empire of the Body.".
- catalog description "May also looks at the debate between two contemporary progressive pragmatists, Richard Rorty and Cornel West, who have turned to the liberalism of the past as an avenue toward the future. By bringing British literary history to American neopragmatist philosophy, May allows the reader to understand both more concretely, historically, and imaginatively. Persuasive new readings of A Passage to India, Howards End, and The Longest Journey are used to illustrate how Rorty and West offer a choice between pragmatisms.".
- catalog description "The past few years have witnessed a resurgence in the study of British literary modernism. With recent publications on modernist American poetry and increasingly appreciative attitudes toward modern British novelists like Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster, many scholars are experiencing a renewed interest in modernism. In The Modernist as Pragmatist, Brian May investigates modernist works that have been, until recently, regarded largely as mere exercises in stale Victorian liberal ideology. Breaking from one current interpretation of Forster as an innovative and perhaps objectionable representative of modernist fictional audacity, May keenly argues that Forster is neither a traditional liberal nor an imperial modernist stylist. He is, rather, a pragmatic liberal critic of both unreconstructed Victorian liberalism and unreckoning modernist aestheticism.".
- catalog extent "xv, 210 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Modernist as pragmatist.".
- catalog identifier "0826210961 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Modernist as pragmatist.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Modernist as pragmatist.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.912 20".
- catalog subject "Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Liberalism Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Liberalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "PR6011.O58 Z8226 1996".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Pragmatism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Rorty, Richard Influence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Pragmatic Liberalism, Literary Modernism, and Forster -- 1. Edwardian Liberalism and Edwardian Pragmatism: Hobhouse, Hobson, Moore, Dickinson, and Masterman -- 2. Modernism and Other Modes in Forster's: The Longest Journey -- 3. Neoliberalism in Rorty and Forster: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity and Howards End -- 4. The Psychopathology of Everyday Liberalism: Howards End and A Passage to India -- 5. A Passage to India and the De-positivizing of the Sublime -- Afterword: Modern Narrative Domain and the Empire of the Body.".
- catalog title "The modernist as pragmatist : E.M. Forster and the fate of liberalism / Brian May.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".