Modernism and Morality Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction
, by Halliwell, MartinNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780333918845 | 0333918843
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/17/2001
Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann, and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde, and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s, this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.