The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians

In this unique and revealing examination of the life and works of this complex poet, novelist, journalist, and short story writer, Josh Gosciak sheds light on McKay's significant literary contributions beyond his interactions with Harlem Renaissance artists and writers. Trained as an English Romanticist and possessing a fine eye for literary detail, McKay crafted a verse out of hybridity and diaspora. Gosciak shows how he reinvigorated a modern pastoral through his encounters with some of the major aesthetic and political movements of the late Victorian and early modern periods: Fabianism, internationalism, pacifism, decadence, horticulture, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the vernacular.
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The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians

In this unique and revealing examination of the life and works of this complex poet, novelist, journalist, and short story writer, Josh Gosciak sheds light on McKay's significant literary contributions beyond his interactions with Harlem Renaissance artists and writers. Trained as an English Romanticist and possessing a fine eye for literary detail, McKay crafted a verse out of hybridity and diaspora. Gosciak shows how he reinvigorated a modern pastoral through his encounters with some of the major aesthetic and political movements of the late Victorian and early modern periods: Fabianism, internationalism, pacifism, decadence, horticulture, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the vernacular.
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The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians

The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians

by Josh Gosciak
The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians

The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians

by Josh Gosciak

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In this unique and revealing examination of the life and works of this complex poet, novelist, journalist, and short story writer, Josh Gosciak sheds light on McKay's significant literary contributions beyond his interactions with Harlem Renaissance artists and writers. Trained as an English Romanticist and possessing a fine eye for literary detail, McKay crafted a verse out of hybridity and diaspora. Gosciak shows how he reinvigorated a modern pastoral through his encounters with some of the major aesthetic and political movements of the late Victorian and early modern periods: Fabianism, internationalism, pacifism, decadence, horticulture, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the vernacular.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813549729
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 01/31/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216
File size: 383 KB

About the Author

Josh Gosciak is the editor of A Day in the Life: Tales from the Lower East Side and is the founder and publisher of Contact II, a multicultural poetry journal. He lives in New York City.
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