 | Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics Subjects: Eliot T.S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888–1965 -- Political and social views; Pound Ezra 1885–1972 -- Political and social views; Lewis Wyndham 1882–1957 -- Political and social views; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Poli; 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. Surette Leon : 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. |
