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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 455–482.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Adam Parkes Pairing D. H. Lawrence with Aldous Huxley, this essay explores representations of aristocracy—hereditary and intellectual—in British modernism. Lawrence and Huxley often associate aristocracy with stupidity, satirizing the expertise of the expert as well as the intellectual vacancy...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...
the marginalized status of his “aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate
and the plucky,” Forster somewhat fatalistically concedes, three decades
after Howards End and on the eve of war, that “no device has been found
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Leslie White
by which these private decencies can be transmitted to public...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 215–238.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., the
virtue of Catholic belief seems to be in the way it sets up an aristocracy
of taste. Those in possession of “culture” form what Eliot refers to as
the “intellectual aristocracy,” (“Second Thoughts” 489), a club of “intel
lectual” and “sensitive” souls such as, presumably, Eliot himself...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2003
... aristocracies. The antihistorical Emerson too
resisted the Old World, or for that matter the Old. While his romanti
cism resembled Wordsworth’s early bliss before “France on top of the
golden hours,” he insisted upon an American rather than a French repu
diation of the past, at its heart stood...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... dissolution. 7 In Nightwood , Felix hopes to transcend death by having a son who can carry on his (supposedly) aristocratic lineage and family name. But Felix’s hope for transcendence is inseparable from his investment in the inherently patriarchal social order on which aristocracy is premised—one Robin...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 624–628.
Published: 01 December 2009
... distinct” (21).
Here Thurtle posits a conceptual overlap between the American industrial
nouveau riche’s self-understanding of class as an indirect form of social
inheritance—a competitive “aristocracy of merit” (39)—and the large-
scale breeding experiments (of trotting horses, mostly) engaged...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... from Grutas and his henchmen. Aristocracy protects Hannibal from both capitalist mass culture and totalitarian socialism. Hannibal escapes the orphanage when he is adopted by his uncle, a painter who was arrested and labeled a “subversive Slavic artist” (80) during the war, and taken to France where he...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 674–680.
Published: 01 December 2013
... by their existence.
Thus, the suspicion of imbalance is superseded by a sense that they are
part of a peculiar aristocracy of the spirit. They suffer but produce unique
pieces that embody the way their lives are presented.
Benjamin Moser’s gripping biography of Clarice Lispector has the
elements...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 273–306.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the tale,
offers Bacon her jewels in exchange for £20,000, the sum she needs to
pay off a gambling debt. Both Bacon and the Duchess know the jewels
are fake; nonetheless, Bacon agrees to buy them, hoping that his deed
and discretion will give him access to the aristocracy, and more specifi
cally...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 582–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
...
of the French aristocracy when she associates with Madame Adelschein’s
group, whose members are notorious for their sexual promiscuity; she
engages Undine’s help in concealing an affair with “a person without
whom, for the moment, she found life intolerable” (245); she prefers one
of her daughters...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2004
... f course, the Sackville-Wests, whose gypsy descent was a
topic of popular knowledge thanks to a sensational inheritance trial in
1910, could have been a key example.7 Evidently the notion that gypsy
blood ran in the veins of the aristocracy (and vice versa) was tempting for
novelists...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 177–202.
Published: 01 June 2023
... imposed on people of color by America’s bifurcated racial system, and the message of the melting pot conveyed by Jackson’s portraits. Many of the habitués of Johnson’s salon were members of the “colored aristocracy,” 5 like Jackson, who traced their descent from prominent African American...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 341–353.
Published: 01 December 2011
... phenomenon which will transcend both
capitalism and communism, in the same way that the bourgeoisie rose to
overturn the world of the aristocracy and clergy at the birth of French
political modernity. In a move that had already been pioneered by Aimé
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Andrew Hoberek
Césaire, Sauvy revises...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 363–392.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., Professionalism, Orlando
nature of the readership. Artists in previous centuries, Woolf suggests, could
rely on a stable relation between artist and audience: Renaissance poets
wrote for the aristocracy, eighteenth-century writers for “coffee-house
wit[s] and Grub Street booksellerfsVictorians...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 27–58.
Published: 01 March 2014
... stratum in England” (“Changing” 721), or what
Noel Annan first called “the intellectual aristocracy.” Kuper demonstrates
the breadth, range, and diversity of that stratum in Incest and Influence,which
includes chapters on the Stephens and on Bloomsbury (187-242).
30. As Woolf herself perhaps...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
... construction of it as a “Protestant aristocracy”—was
the notion of “the best knit to the best.” (The weakness for eugenics
which looms so large in his later work was already well advanced.)
Gonne’s mismatched union with MacBride mirrored her perverted pol
itics—hurling “the little streets...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 318–340.
Published: 01 September 2010
... it, “within a comparatively
short historical period, the members of Protestant aristocracy who had been
the original progenitors of Irish nationalism came to view themselves as exiles
within their own country” (85).
10. DiBattista sees in this urgency a source of Bowen’s “modernist idiom”
(238...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2016
... print public sphere, where “what had once been an aristocracy of patron- salonniers ” during the Renaissance “would now be replaced by an elite of patron-investors” who shaped modernism’s branding as a commodity in the literary marketplace (1998, 39). 10 In the autobiographical notes H.D...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 56–77.
Published: 01 March 2000
... quarter—the abode of young and living artists, of black-
shirted radicals, modernist painters, and précieux poets—she instead carved
out her setting from memorialized Chelsea, the Cheyne streets that formed
the “aristocracy” of Chelsea’s artists’ residences.12 The Hilberys’ home and
the Great...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 77–99.
Published: 01 March 2002
... that was at least half-covered with dust sheets (118). Homes that
remained under British ownership no longer served as emblems of the
landed aristocracy. One example is the Rose Garden Hotel, a converted
home in which Stevens waits to renew his acquaintance with Miss Ken
ton (now Mrs. Benn...
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