Erin G. Carlston

Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity

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ISBN 13:
9780804741675
author:
Erin G. Carlston
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Stanford University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2000
Pages:
230
Dimensions:
140mm X 216mm
Genre:
Literature
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£18.83

Description

Thinking Fascism: A Study of Women Writers and Modernity. This book explores how women writers engaged with fascist politics and ideology in the 1930s, challenging common assumptions about their relationship to fascism. Through analysis of three key works - Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve, and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas - Erin G. Carlston examines the intersection of fascism with other forms of modernity. Carlston argues that Western intellectuals, regardless of their political views, were preoccupied in the 1930s with issues such as the commodification of culture and sexuality, and the erosion of liberal concepts of individuality and art. By demonstrating that women writers like the Sapphic Modernists and conservative male modernists often shared similar conceptions of these problems, this book suggests a more nuanced understanding of fascism in the interwar period. By reevaluating the relationship between women intellectuals and fascist ideology, Thinking Fascism offers a fresh perspective on a complex topic.

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