Reaction and the Avant-Garde: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

by Tom Villis

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845110390
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/28/2005
Series:	International Library of Political Studies , #7
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Tom Villis is a Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• Elitism and the revolt of the masses
• Forging and anti-parliamentary tradition
• The nation
• The Jews
• 'Sterile Virgins on the drab rampage'
• Conclusion