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Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age

Vincent P Pecora author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:24th Feb '20

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European culture after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was no stranger to ancient beliefs in an organic, religiously sanctioned, and aesthetically pleasing relationship to the land. The many resonances of this relationship form a more or less coherent whole, in which the supposed cosmopolitanism of the modern age is belied by a deep commitment to regional, nationalist, and civilizational attachments, including a justifying theological armature, much of which is still with us today. This volume untangles the meaning of the vital geographies of the period, including how they shaped its literature and intellectual life.

Yet this extraordinarily rich and erudite book is enlivened by a certain suspense. * Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, VICTORIAN STUDIES *
In this impressively wide-ranging study, Pecora shows that modernism consistently exhibits cosmopolitanism's obverse: ethno-nationalism, agro-romanticism, and reactionary celebration of the local and bounded. * E.D. Hill, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *
Pecora's book is a helpful reminder of the critical reactions to globalism voiced throughout so much modernist poetry and prose. * Pound and Eliot *

ISBN: 9780198852148

Dimensions: 242mm x 160mm x 23mm

Weight: 606g

310 pages