Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture

by Lawrence Rainey

This book recounts new and startling stories about five major modernist figures--James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H. D., and F. T. Marinetti--whose individual tales offer fresh perspectives on the larger story of modernism itself. The author explores why the cultural status of literary modernism became increasingly troubled and how the public and the cultural and literary elites became mutually estranged. Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity .

Genres: Literary Criticism

238 pages, Hardcover

First published January 11, 1999

About the author

Lawrence S. Rainey is a university professor and writer/editor on the classic works of Anglo-American modernism.