Reaction and the Avant-Garde: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Brtiain (International Library of Political Studies)

By Tom Villis

"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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845110390
• ISBN13: 9781845110390
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.8"