Modernism, Satire and the Novel

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ISBN: 9781107008496 | 1107008492
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/30/2011

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Through satire, modernist literature cultivated sophisticated, ironic and cruel attitudes towards suffering which dramatically changed our understanding of emotion.

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xviii
Satire and its discontents	p. 1
The double movement of satire	p. 3
Satire, modernity, and the grotesque	p. 7
Rethinking modernist antisentimentality	p. 11
Feelings of suspicion	p. 16
Modernism's story of feeling	p. 21
Forms of indifference: Wilde and Beerbohm	p. 22
Forms of aggression: Pound and Lewis	p. 26
Satire emergent: Joyce and Huxley	p. 33
Late modernism	p. 40
The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies	p. 47
Waugh's Purgatorio	p. 48
All the terrors of the pseudo	p. 54
Everyone is a bomb: espionage, anarchy, modernism	p. 61
Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust	p. 70
The death of Peppermint	p. 71
Phantasy with a ph	p. 80
Cold Comfort Farm and mental life	p. 92
Some perversions of pastoral	p. 93
Gorgeous emotional wallowings	p. 100
Tolerable comfort	p. 109
Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling	p. 115
The terrible sincere struggle	p. 116
The sun is a joke	p. 122
The book of the grotesque	p. 126
The refuse of feeling	p. 131
Nightwood and the ends of satire	p. 138
Great defaming sentences	p. 140
We go up - but we come down	p. 145
Remember Lady Macbeth	p. 150
Second-hand dealings with life	p. 155
Beckett's authoritarian personalities	p. 161
Moran as bureaucrat and father	p. 164
Moran's comic law	p. 171
Follow me carefully: Molloy's obsessions	p. 176
Notes	p. 184
Index	p. 215
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Modernism, Satire and the Novel

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