First Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction

by Maria DiBattista

All of us remember our First Love. In this brilliant and often passionate book, Maria DiBattista shows that the yearning for the freshness of First Love, and the sadness of that yearning, are central to modern literature. DiBattista offers a sweeping and wholly original reinterpretation of modern fiction, allowing us to see the romantic affections that lie behind the seemingly most ironic of modernist texts.

DiBattista argues that modernity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226144984
• ISBN13: 9780226144986
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"