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

Contents Introduction: Sublime Vulgarity, Fanatical Play 1 The Chesterbentley: A Fin-de-Siecle Nonsense Friendship 2 The Ethics of Travesty: Chesterton's Ludicrous Performance on the Edwardian Literary Stage 3 A Hundred Visions and Revisions: Chesterton Refracted through the Avant-Garde of 1910 4 We Discharge Ourselves on Both Sides: The Parodic Commerce of Chesterton and the Men of 1914 5 Le Mob c'est Moi: 1920s Modernism as Monstrous Carnival 6 Audacious Reconciliation: The Human Circulating Library of Late Modernism