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Michael Shallcross, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture

Michael Shallcross, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and... Book Reviews Michael Shallcross, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-67873-6. It is undoubtedly the case, as Brett H. Speakman observed in his 2017 review of Denis Conlon’s G.K. Chesterton: A Reappraisal (2015) in this very journal, that there has been a marked increase in publications over the last decade devoted to that ‘para’-Inkling (at least in the Wade Center’s classification), G.K. Chesterton. Michael Shallcross’s Rethinking G.K. Chesterton is another addition to this list, and one which is entirely aware of most of its recent predecessors (though, ironically, Conlon’s similarly titled work does not appear in the bibliography). Shallcross’s own full title belies his book’s extensive reach: of the six main chapters, the first two are not centrally concerned with modernism at all, focusing instead on Chesterton’s relationship with the best friend of his youth, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, and his ‘Performance on the Edwardian Literary Stage’, in a kind of double act with George Bernard Shaw. It is only in the remaining chapters, which proceed roughly chronologically through Chesterton’s life, that the Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the British-American ‘Men of 1914’: Ezra http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Michael Shallcross, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture

Vaninskaya, Anna
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 9 (1): 3 – Apr 1, 2019
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Book Reviews Michael Shallcross, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-67873-6. It is undoubtedly the case, as Brett H. Speakman observed in his 2017 review of Denis Conlon’s G.K. Chesterton: A Reappraisal (2015) in this very journal, that there has been a marked increase in publications over the last decade devoted to that ‘para’-Inkling (at least in the Wade Center’s classification), G.K. Chesterton. Michael Shallcross’s Rethinking G.K. Chesterton is another addition to this list, and one which is entirely aware of most of its recent predecessors (though, ironically, Conlon’s similarly titled work does not appear in the bibliography). Shallcross’s own full title belies his book’s extensive reach: of the six main chapters, the first two are not centrally concerned with modernism at all, focusing instead on Chesterton’s relationship with the best friend of his youth, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, and his ‘Performance on the Edwardian Literary Stage’, in a kind of double act with George Bernard Shaw. It is only in the remaining chapters, which proceed roughly chronologically through Chesterton’s life, that the Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the British-American ‘Men of 1914’: Ezra

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