Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/25/2008
EAN 9780521889247, ISBN10: 0521889243
Hardcover, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Modernist writers in the early twentieth century aimed to write in inventive and transformative ways, but they lived in places celebrated for their association with the achievements of past generations. For E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, this contrast was strongly felt: living and writing in London, they found themselves in a city that was being fashioned as 'historic' in ways incongruous with their own critical ideals. In this innovative study, Andrea Zemgulys reads the early writings of Forster, Eliot and Woolf against the development of a growing heritage industry in England generally and London in particular. Her study offers fresh analyses of major works and a fascinating history of the making of literary and historical heritage in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
Introduction
Part I. Heritage
1. English originals
literary heritage in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
2. Reading in place
the subjects of literary geography
3. Making it newly old
heritage and memory in turn-of-the-century London
Part II. Modernism
4. Transit
modernism's London and E. M. Forster's Chelsea
5. In London with a Baedeker
touring T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
6. Consummate labor
Virginia Woolf's trek to a better literature
Conclusion
Index.