Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- 1. Modernism and fhe Critical Spirit -- 2. English Social Criticism and the Spirit of Reformation -- 3. The Reality of Disillusion in T.S. Eliot -- 4. The Organic Society of F.R. Leavis -- 5. A Postscript to the Higher Criticism: The Case of Philip Rieff -- 6. The Formalist Avant-Garde and the Autonomy of Aesthetic Values -- 7. Aristocrats and Jacobins: The Happy Few in The Charterhouse of Parma -- 8. Flaubert and the Powerlessness of Art -- 9. The Blasphemy of Joycean Art -- Notes -- Index.