Lateness and modern European literature / Ben Hutchinson.

First edition.

9780191821578 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

c ©2016

English

1 online resource (x, 392 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198767695 doi

PN760.5 .H878 2016eb

809.034

Ben Hutchinson proposes a major new reading of modern literature 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 chronology and imitation, he argues that lateness can be understood as an expression of modernity's quest for legitimacy.

Ben Hutchinson proposes a major new reading of modern literature 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 chronology and imitation, he argues that lateness can be understood as an expression of modernity's quest for legitimacy.

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