Juliette Bretan

Though so far under-explored, British authors in the interwar period were frequently fascinated by the reconfiguration of East-central Europe following the war. Inspired by both British intellectual and political support for nationalism, as well as newfound disillusionment in the 1920s with ideas of democracy and nation-states, authors ranging from T.S. Eliot to Evelyn Waugh both […]

T.S. Eliot’s anti-Polishness: British literary responses to Central European geopolitics in the interwar era Hidden within the nascent and rough-hewn pages of the drafted version of T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land, is a snippet of the Slavic, ultimately scratched out before the poem reached publication: ‘who are those hooded hordes swarming / over Polish plains’. […]