The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics

by Lesley Higgins

'Cult of Ugliness', Ezra Pound's phrase, powerfully summarizes the ways in which modernists such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and T.E. Hulme - the self styled 'Men of 1914' - responded to the 'horrid or sordid or disgusting' conditions of modernity by radically changing aesthetic theory and literary practices. Only the representation of 'ugliness', they protested, would produce the new, truly 'beautiful' work of art. Claiming membership in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312240376
• ISBN13: 9780312240370
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 7.5"