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- 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
Chapter 2 - Friends and Enemies
Liberal Order in Woolf, Wells, and Woolf
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2019
- 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
This chapter takes up the friends and enemies of the liberal world order of 1919, beginning with the anti-liberal provocations of the postwar avant-garde. At its center it focuses on the ambivalent relationship of Leonard and Virginia Woolf to liberal internationalism. I propose a new reading of the political Virginia Woolf as a writer devoted to rethinking liberal governance, rather than a critic writing “against empire,” and read her breakthrough anti-bildungsroman, Jacob’s Room, as an extended inquiry into liberal governmental order. I put Woolf’s approach to liberal government in dialogue with H. G. Wells’s World State fiction and his Outline of History, a major intellectual event of the postwar period.
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- Interwar Modernism and the Liberal World OrderOffices, Institutions, and Aesthetics after 1919, pp. 46 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019