Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Contexts of Modernist Hope
Chapter One: The Image in the Mirror: Aesthetic Utility in Late James
Chapter Two: Screened Anxieties: Hope and Fear in D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
Chapter Three: Unpredictable Texts: H.D.’s Grammar of Creation
Chapter Four: Recovering Democracy: Unfashionable Hope in Melvin B. Tolson’s Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
Chapter Five: Refusing Silence: Art as Deferment in Waiting for Godot and Endgame
Coda: Legacies of Modernist Hope: Poetic Unknowing and the Call to Wonder
Biography
Tim DeJong received his Ph.D. in English at Western University and is currently employed as a Lecturer in the English Department at Baylor University. His academic essays have been published in Modernist Cultures, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and English Studies in Canada. His poetry appears in Rattle, Roanoke Review, Booth, Kindred, Nomadic Journal, Common Ground Review, and other journals. He lives with his wife and three children in Woodway, Texas.
