Oxford University Press, January 2013
Modernist Literature & Culture Series
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No aspect of modernist literature has attracted more passionate defenses, or more furious denunciations, than its affinity for the idea of autonomy. A belief in art as a law unto itself is central to the work of many writers from the late nineteenth century to the present. But is this belief just a way of denying art’s social contexts, its roots in the lives of its creators, its political and ethical obligations?