ethical devices in European and American fiction /
Martin Halliwell.
New York :
Palgrave,
2001.
viii, 264 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-256) and index.
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 19th-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.
Literature and morals-- History-- 20th century.
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Littérature-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.