The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850
by Meisel, Perry
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300045603
- ISBN 13
- 9780300045604
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Octavo. 8vo. x (iv), 263 (1) pp. Only the very slightest external wear, else, Pristine Interior. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 9". Wrappers. "The author rejects the usual claim that literary modernism is a response to the decaying conditions of modern life. Instead he argues that modernism is an imaginative response to the impossibility of being original when coming of age too late in a literary and cultural tradition.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006236
- Title
- The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850
- Author
- Meisel, Perry
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300045603
- ISBN 13
- 9780300045604
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM BRITISH LITERATURE AND CRITICISM HISTORY AFTER 1850
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- Octavo
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- Wrappers
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Tight
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