Bonnie Roos

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (eBook, PDF)

The World and the Politics of Peace

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood. In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of Herbert Bayard Swope's popular New York newspaper The World to demonstrate the ways in which the novel wrestles with such contemporaneous issues as the Great Depression and its political fallout, the failures of the League of Nations and the collapse of peace between the two World Wars. Roos argues that Nightwood allegorizes the role of liberal newspapers - epitomised by the sensationalism of The World - in driving a US policy that hastened the arrival of war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472533296
• Artikelnr.: 40865397

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Roos is Associate Professor of English at West Texas A&M University, USA. Her previous publications include (as co-editor) Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. History Lessons: Woodrow Wilson's Idealism and the Rise of the League of
Nations
2. On Sleepwalkers and Alcoholism: Government Corruption and the Secret of
Room '29
3. Circus Animals and Trainers: Marxist Lessons and the Truth about The
World
4. The 'Seductions' of Capitalism: Fortune Telling, Ponzi Schemes and the
Magnificent Marthe Hanau
5. On Matthew O'Connor's 'Neurasthenia' and the Wolf in Grandma's Clothes
6. The Fall of the League of Nations: Bad Loans, Bank Closures and Felix's
'Old Masters'
7. Déjà vu: the Gold Standard, the 'New Deal' and the Audacity of Swope
8. Herbert Bayard Swope and the End of The World
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index