Overview

European culture after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was no stranger to ancient beliefs in an organic, religiously sanctioned, and aesthetically pleasing relationship to the land. The many resonances of this relationship form a more or less coherent whole, in which the supposed cosmopolitanism of the modern age is belied by a deep commitment to regional, nationalist, and civilizational attachments, including a justifying theological armature, much of which is still with us today. This volume untangles the meaning of the vital geographies of the period, including how they shaped its literature and intellectual life.

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Author:   Vincent P. Pecora (Gordon B. Hinckley Presidential Professor of British Studies, University of Utah)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.606kg
ISBN:  

9780198852148

ISBN 10:   0198852142
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   24 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Back to the Land After the Franco-Prussian War 1: Athens and Jerusalem: Autochthony, Promised Land, and the Roots of Western Aesthetics Part I: The Return of the Native: On the Autochthonous Imagination 2: 'After all, anybody is as their land and air is . . . ': The Ground of the Modern English Novel 3: Blood and Soil: Otto Brunner in 'Southeast Germany' 4: A Different Passage to India: Ashis Nandy, Indic Civilization, and the Defense of Innocence Part II: Deracination and Promised Land 5: George Eliot's Spot of a Native Land: Adam Bede Becomes Daniel Deronda 6: Ezekiel Chastises His People: The Counter-Reformation Argument of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land 7: Ezekiel Reclaims the Promised Land: T. S. Eliot and the Life of Significant Soil Epilogue: Attachment, Belonging, and Heidegger's Blue Heaven

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Yet this extraordinarily rich and erudite book is enlivened by a certain suspense. * Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, VICTORIAN STUDIES * In this impressively wide-ranging study, Pecora shows that modernism consistently exhibits cosmopolitanism's obverse: ethno-nationalism, agro-romanticism, and reactionary celebration of the local and bounded. * E.D. Hill, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *

In this impressively wide-ranging study, Pecora shows that modernism consistently exhibits cosmopolitanism's obverse: ethno-nationalism, agro-romanticism, and reactionary celebration of the local and bounded. * E.D. Hill, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *

Author Information

Vincent P. Pecora is the Gordon B. Hinckley Presidential Professor of British Studies at the University of Utah. He has taught at the University of Arkansas (1984-85), the University of California, Los Angeles (1985-2005), and has directed summer seminars for the School of Criticism and Theory (2002) and the Social Science Research Council (2010 and 2014). He is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, and Coetzee (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), and he is the editor of Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), and a founding co-editor of the on-line Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.

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