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Incredible Modernism Literature, Trust and Deception
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With the twentieth century came a new awareness of just how much an individual was obliged to accept on trust, and this heightened awareness of social trust in turn prompted new kinds of anxiety about fraudulence and deception. Beginning with the premise that the traditional liberal concept of trust as a ’bond of society’ entered a period of crisis around the turn of the twentieth century, this... Read more
Introduction: Modernism, Trust and Deception, John Attridge; Part 1 Reading and Trust; Chapter 1 Modern Proliferation, Modernist Trust, Leonard Diepeveen; Chapter 2 Trusting Personality: Modernist Memoir and its Audience, Rod Rosenquist; Chapter 3 Credulous Readers: H.D. and Psychic-Research Work, Suzanne Hobson; Part 2 After Sincerity; Chapter 4 Subterranean Folkway Blues: Ralph Ellison’s Mythology of Deception, Paul Sheehan; Chapter 5 Counterfeit Masterpieces: Gide, Joyce and Intertextual Deception, Scarlett Baron; Chapter 6 False Bottoms: Wyndham Lewis’s The Revenge for Love and the Incredible Real, Paul Edwards; Part 3 Truth and Narrative; Chapter 7 Ford Madox Ford, Impressionism and Trust in The Good Soldier, Max Saunders; Chapter 8 Malone Lies: Veracity and Morality in Malone Dies, Samuel Cross; Chapter 9 What I May or May Not Have Done in the War: Truth, Genre and the War Books Controversy, Jessica Weare; Part 4 Trust and Society; Chapter 10 The Trust and the Mistrust: Ezra Pound in Italy, Sean Pryor; Chapter 11 Wallace Stevens’s ‘Drastic Community’: Credit, Suretyship and the Society of Distrust, Jason Puskar; Chapter 12 Episodic Trust: Self, Society and Sociology in A la recherche du temps perdu, John Attridge; S01 Afterword: Autoimmunity, Trust and Value;
Biography
John Attridge is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Rod Rosenquist is Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
'The forms of trust that Incredible Modernism sketches - readerly, financial, social, scholarly - appear integral to our understanding of modern experience. The expansive range of this collection is noteworthy and Rosenquist's impressive afterword ties together many of the theories proposed in the essays ...' Times Literary Supplement
