Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism

Jessica Berman

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Paper, 384 pages, 13 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14951-8
$29.50 / £20.50

December, 2011
Cloth, 384 pages, 13 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14950-1
$89.50 / £62.00

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imagining Justice

Part 1

1. Intimate and Global: Ethical Domains from Woolf to Rhys

2. Comparative Colonialisms: Joyce

Part 2

3. Modernism in the Zenana: The Domestic Spaces of Sorabji

4. Commitment and the Scene of War: Max Aub and Spanish Civil War Writing

5. Arising from the Cornlands: The Working-Class Voices of Conroy and Le Sueur

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• European and British Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Modernist Latitudes

About the Author

Jessica Berman is associate professor and chair of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community and the coeditor, with Jane Goldman, of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds. She is also the co-editor, with Paul Saint-Amour, of the series Modernist Latitudes.

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