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Modernist Cultures Volume 12 Issue 3

Subject Areas: History; ; ; ; ; ;
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press - Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 2041-1022
SJR: 1

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Solemn Progress: Woolf, Burke, and the Negotiation of Virtue

Zhang, Nan

2017 Modernist Cultures

doi:10.3366/mod.2017.0184

This essay analyzes Virginia Woolf's exploration of a public spirit exceeding both bourgeois egotism and narrow patriotic allegiances prescribed by the imperial state. Excavating hitherto unexamined affinities between Woolf and Edmund Burke, the essay shows how Woolf's vision of solemn progress...
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Gossip at Work: Scandal, Professionalism, and Community in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

Perko, Katharine

2017 Modernist Cultures

doi:10.3366/mod.2017.0185

This essay considers the central role of gossip in Lord Jim (1902) as Joseph Conrad's response to the end of the working age of global sail and the rise of modern professionalism in the first decades of the twentieth century. While several critical readings mention the presence of professional...
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David Jones's Barbaric-Fetish: Frazer and the Aesthetic Value of the Liturgy

Callison, Jamie

2017 Modernist Cultures

doi:10.3366/mod.2017.0186

Much recent critical interest in the relationship between modernism and religion has concerned itself with the occult, spiritualism, and theosophy as opposed to institutional religion, relying on an implicit analogy between the experimental in religion and the experimental in art. I argue that...
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot, ed. by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue

Ellis, Steve

2017 Modernist Cultures

doi:10.3366/mod.2017.0187

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