Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist, 1885-1925

by Frederick R. Karl

Book by Karl, Frederick Robert

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Along with his biographies, Frederick Karl wrote several volumes of literary criticism, among them American Fictions: 1940-1980. He also was general editor and volume co-editor of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, five volumes of which have appeared. He taught at City College of New York, Columbia, and NYU. Karl died in 2004.

Reviews

[Carol Mann Agency]

From Publishers Weekly

Modernist painters, writers, poets and composers are feared, maintains the author of Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives, because their creativity demands a reorientation of feeling and thinking that may threaten social cohesion. PW called this a "brilliant, dense cultural history."

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