{"product_id":"evolutions-of-modernist-epic-c-9780198868217","title":"Evolutions of Modernist Epic C","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the early twentieth century. Reading a selection of works from the United States, England, Ireland, Czechoslovakia, and Brazil, \u003cem\u003eThe Evolutions of Modernist Epic\u003c\/em\u003e develops a comparative theory of this genre and its global development. That development was, it argues, bound up with new ideas about biological evolution. During the first decades of the twentieth century--a period known, in the history of evolutionary science, as 'the eclipse of Darwinism'--evolution's significance was questioned, rethought, and ultimately confined to the Neo-Darwinist discourse with which we are familiar today. Epic fiction participated in, and was shaped by, this shift. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on queer forms of sexuality to cultivate anti-heroic and non-progressive modes of telling national stories, the genre contested reductive and reactionary forms of social Darwinism. The book describes how, in doing so, the genre asks us to revisit our assumptions about ethnolinguistics and organic nationalism. It also models how the history of evolutionary thought can provide a new basis for comparing diverse modernisms and their peculiar nativisms.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46418122670231,"sku":"9780198868217","price":11902.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198868217.webp?v=1769069975","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/evolutions-of-modernist-epic-c-9780198868217","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}