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Lateness and Modern European Literature (Hardcover)
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Lateness and Modern European Literature (Hardcover)
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Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series
of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In
this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary
modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but
as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European
literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence
or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations
of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest
for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors-from Mary
Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James,
and Nietzsche, to Valery, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno- he combines
close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical
comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad
comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse
ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of
Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original,
Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new
model for understanding literary modernity.
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