Tom Villis

Reaction and the Avant-Garde (eBook, PDF)

The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

"Reaction and the Avant-Garde" illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the century, which had a powerful hold on Europe's intellectual elite. Prominent literary figures, such as Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons, led a revolt against liberal parliamentary democracy in Britain. This group despised parliaments as representing and embodying a 'nation'. Villis examines the literary works, private papers, correspondence and memoirs of the leaders of this anti-Semitic, anti-modern, anti-women's rights movement that formed the intellectual underpinning of European fascism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857716071
• Artikelnr.: 39141018

Autorenporträt

Tom Villis is a Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
vii Introduction
1 Readers, Writers and Intellectual Networks
19 Elitism and the Revolt of the Masses
41 The Forging of an Anti
Parliamentary Tradition
72 The Nation
107 The New Age, the New Witness and the Jews
146 'Sterile Virgins on the Drab Rampage': the Image of Women in the New Ages and the New Witness
174 Conclusion
192 Notes
197 Bibliography
239 Index
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