Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel

How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era...
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Author: Robert Higney
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Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel by Higney, Robert

Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel

$132.13

Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel

$132.13
Author: Robert Higney
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in literary and intellectual culture. In Institutional Character, Robert Higney investigates the role of the modernist novel in this reevaluation, revealing how for a diverse array of modernist writers, character became an attribute of the institutions of the state, international trade, communication and media, labor, education, public health, the military, law, and beyond.

In readings of figures from the works of E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf to Mulk Raj Anand, Elizabeth Bowen, and Zadie Smith, Higney presents a new history of character in modernist writing. He simultaneously tracks how writers themselves turned to the techniques of fiction to help secure a place in the postwar institutions of literary culture. In these narratives-addressing imperial administrations, global financial competition, women's entry into the professions, colonial nationalism, and wartime espionage-we are shown the generative power of institutions in preserving the past, designing the present, and engineering the future, and the constitutive involvement of individuals in collective life.



Author: Robert Higney
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 07/19/2022
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780813948607

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