Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace

by Bonnie Roos

Book Overview

Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood.

In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of Herbert Bayard Swope's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474275591
• ISBN13: 9781474275590
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"