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The Degenerate Muse: American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and the Problem of Cultural Hygiene - Modernist Literature and Culture
Schulze, Robin G. (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Delaware)
The Degenerate Muse: American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and the Problem of Cultural Hygiene - Modernist Literature and Culture
Schulze, Robin G. (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Delaware)
The early twentieth century marked a dramatic shift in the American conception of nature. This book analyzes the ways in which the scientific recasting of American nature as an antidote for degeneration influenced work of important modernist writers Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore.
312 pages, frontispiece
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 19, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780199920327 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 163 × 234 × 28 mm · 580 g |