LEADER 03934nam 2200685 450 001 9910797842003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-53788-3 024 7 $a10.7312/davi16942 035 $a(CKB)3710000000513466 035 $a(EBL)4012153 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001570233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16220551 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14313334 035 $a(PQKB)10404590 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001307522 035 $a(DE-B1597)458299 035 $a(OCoLC)1013935629 035 $a(OCoLC)942842647 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4012153 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11210281 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL985998 035 $a(OCoLC)951048408 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4012153 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000513466 100 $a20160526h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe extinct scene $elate modernism and everyday life /$fThomas S. Davis 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 225 1 $aModernist Latitudes 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-16942-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Last Snapshot of the British Intelligentsia -- $t2. The Historical Novel at History's End -- $t3. Late Modernism's Geopolitical Imagination -- $t4. War Gothic -- $t5. "It is De Age of Colonial Concern" -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder.The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire and seismic shifts in the global political order. Davis follows the rise of documentary film culture and the British Documentary Film Movement, especially the work of John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings, and Basil Wright. He then considers the influence of late modernist periodical culture on social attitudes and customs, and presents original analyses of novels by Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Colin MacInnes; the interwar travel narratives of W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell; the wartime gothic fiction of Elizabeth Bowen; the poetry of H. D.; the sketches of Henry Moore; and the postimperial Anglophone Caribbean works of Vic Reid, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming. By considering this group of writers and artists, Davis recasts late modernism as an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life, these figures could better project large-scale geopolitical events and crises. 410 0$aModernist latitudes. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a820.9/112 686 $aHM 1071$2rvk 700 $aDavis$b Thomas S$g(Thomas Saverance),$01529861 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797842003321 996 $aThe extinct scene$93774377 997 $aUNINA