"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.
| Author: Tom Villis |
| Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company |
| Publication Date: Oct 28, 2005 |
| Number of Pages: 280 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1845110390 |
| ISBN-13: 9781845110390 |
