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Modernism and the Fate of Individuality - Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf (Paperback, New ed)
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Modernism and the Fate of Individuality - Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf (Paperback, New ed)
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Michael Levenson, author of the acclaimed A Genealogy of Modernism,
devotes this second book to the complex question of the self, the
individual subject, as it undergoes various transitions throughout
the period we designate 'modernist'. The book is an elaborate and
compelling engagement with the problem of individuality in our age,
structured around a sophisticated reading of eight major novels by
Conrad, James, Forster, Madox Ford, Lewis, Lawrence, Joyce and
Woolf. Professor Levenson takes account of the large body of modern
theoretical writing on this topic, and his study will be of
interest to theorists, cultural historians, and literary scholars
in equal measure. It addresses issues (the crisis of liberalism,
challenge to Eurocentrism, advance of bureaucracy, contest between
men and women) still of crucial concern in our culture, showing
that the problem, when it comes to locating the self within the
entanglements of a community, is one of defining a formal concept
while at the same time preserving a moral value.
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