Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry

by Alex Davis (Editor)

In this collection, an international team of contributors contests the conventional critical view of modernism as a transnational or supranational entity. They examine relationships between modernist poetry and place, and foreground issues of region and space, nation and location in the work of poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. The book brings the work of major canonical writers into juxtaposition with more neglected modernists such as Basil Bunting and Dylan Thomas, writers whose investment in the concepts of region and nation, it is argued, contributed to their relative marginalization.

310 pages, Hardcover

First published October 5, 2000

About the author

Professor of English at University College Cork