1st Edition

Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty

By Andrew John Miller Copyright 2007
252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century – Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf – wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among (and within) individual nation-states had come to seem virtually inescapable. Drawing on Jean-François Lyotard's... Read more

Preface; Chapter 1: Crisis of Sovereignty: Global Civil War in Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf; Chapter 2: Civil Wars of Language: Irish Performativity in Yeats; Chapter 3: "Social Welfare Dream": Sovereignty, Responsibility, and Biopolitics in Yeats; Chapter 4: "Compassing Material Ends": Sovereignty, Pluralism, and Professionalism in Eliot; Chapter 5: Between Nation and Profession: Aesthetic Sovereignty in Woolf’s Between the Acts; Chapter 6: "Traditions of the Private House": Sovereignty, Civility, and Ownership; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Biography

Andrew John Miller is Associate Professor in the Départment d’études anglaises at the Université de Montréal.