Download or read book Modernism and Democracy written by Rachel Potter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American modernist writing and the modern mass democratic state emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Rachel Potter charts the changes in the ideas of democracy and discusses the wide range of reactions to these changes. She argues that modernist poems were shaped by rapidly evolving and complicated ideas of democracy.