Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature

• Other Authors: Ganteau, Jean-Michel (Editor), Reynier, Christine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2010
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; poetry; modernism; fiction; postmodernism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This collection of essays means to explore the interaction between autonomy and commitment in an attempt at revisiting and possibly, revising conventional literary history. Until recently, literary history has indeed tended to present twentieth century British literature as either autonomous or comm...