Book contents
- Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order
- Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Queer Modernist Origins of Interwar Liberal Order
- Chapter 2 Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 3 The Artist as Clerk
- Chapter 4 Typewriter Fiction at the Secretariat
- Chapter 5 Black Modernist Internationalisms between the Wars
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Coda
Brief History of an Antipathy: Liberal Order and Modernist Criticism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2019
Book contents
- Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order
- Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World Order
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Queer Modernist Origins of Interwar Liberal Order
- Chapter 2 Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 3 The Artist as Clerk
- Chapter 4 Typewriter Fiction at the Secretariat
- Chapter 5 Black Modernist Internationalisms between the Wars
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The conclusion traces out the legacies of the battle between interwar liberal and anti-liberal political aesthetics. The antagonism of literary critics toward liberalism and neoliberalism in the present has inherited elements of the modernist confrontation with liberal governance, as demonstrated through some of the more important figures in the debate. Our own relationship to liberal governance tends to occlude the specific relationship of modernists to the dominant liberal order of their time, in a way which impoverishes our accounts of politics and aesthetics between the wars.
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- Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World OrderOffices, Institutions, and Aesthetics after 1919, pp. 164 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019