1st Edition
The Nature of Modernism Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew
By Elizabeth Black
Copyright 2018
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book’s central argument is that within British modernist poetry there is a clear and sustained interest in the natural world which has yet to receive adequate... Read more
Introduction
1. Modernism, Nature and Theory
2. Modernism in Ecocritical Thought
3. Edward Thomas: The Path to Ecological Modernism
4. T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
5. T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets
6. Edith Sitwell
7. Charlotte Mew
Conclusion
Biography
Elizabeth Black is a Writing Tutor and Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
