Robin G Schulze

Degenerate Muse

American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and the Problem of Cultural Hygiene

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199920327
• ISBN-10: 019992032X
• Artikelnr.: 36693073

Autorenporträt

Robin Schulze is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her specialties include Modernist American Poetry, Textual Scholarship and Editorial Theory, and Modernist Literature and Culture. She is the author of The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens (1995), and the editor of Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Toward a Modern Nature
Chapter One: Nature Study, Degeneration, and the Problem of Poetry
Chapter Two: Harriet Monroe's Pioneer Modernism
Chapter Three: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Hygiene
Chapter Four: Marianne Moore, Degeneration, and Domestication
Chapter Five: Marianne Moore, Nature, and National Health
Conclusion
Bibliography