"Reaction and the Avant-Garde" illuminates a vital facet of right-wing thought in the first decades of the century, which had a powerful hold on Europe''s intellectual elite. Prominent literary figures, such as Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc and the Chestertons, led a revolt against liberal parliamentary democracy in Britain.

This group despised parliaments as representing and embodying a ''nation''. Villis examines the literary works, private papers, correspondence and memoirs of the leaders of this anti-Semitic, anti-modern, anti-women''s rights movement that formed the intellectual underpinning of European fascism.


Format Häftad Omfång 280 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Utgivningsdatum 2020-11-26 ISBN 9781350176218