A Genealogy of Modernism : A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 (Cambridge Paperback Library)

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Summary: Smart intellectual history--if you can take it.
Review: This is a detailed (painfully so) and scholarly (painfully so) account of the development of Modernist aesthetic theory through the twenties. L.'s contention is that the period, which seems jumbled and contradictory, was in fact a period of distinctive trial and experiment