Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction

Halliwell, M.

Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349423804

DOI: 10.1057/9780230502734

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 264