Ben Hutchinson 
Lateness and Modern European Literature [EPUB ebook] 

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Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as ‘new’. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is ‘late’. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of latenesssince romanticism express modernity’s continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors-from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valery, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno- he combines close readings of canonical texts withhistorical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as ‘creatures facing backwards’. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9780191080340 ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5281114 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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