In Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics, Charles Ferrall
argues that the politics of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, and
Wyndham Lewis were a response to the separation of art from an
increasingly industrialised society. Fascism became attractive to
these writers because it promised to reintegrate art into society
while simultaneously guaranteeing its autonomy. Yet with the
exception of Pound and Yeats, these writers all finally rejected
fascism, preferring instead to see the aesthetic as a sphere in
permanent opposition to liberal democracy, rather than the basis
for a new social order. Individual chapters focus on Yeats and
decolonisation, Pound and 'the Jews', Eliot and the uncanny, and
Lawrence and homosexuality, and Lewis and the Cartesian primitive.
Ferrall's account of why some of the greatest writers of the early
twentieth century became involved in reactionary politics offers
insights into the relation between modernist aesthetics, technology
and avant-gardism.
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