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Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia : Literary Modernism and Politics
ISBN: 9780773586659
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: Literature;

Frank Kermode famously commented that the "correlation between early modernist literature and authoritarian politics" was "more often noticed than explained." Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia examines in detail the political writings of three of modernism's best known and most criticized fascist sympathisers: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Wyndam Lewis.

Leon Surette is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Humanism and The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult.Leon Surette is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Humanism and The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult.