Lateness and Modern European Literature

by Ben Hutchinson

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198767692
• ISBN13: 9780198767695
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"