Modernism

Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor, University of Toronto-Scarborough and Emerita Member of the Graduate Department of English, University of Toronto. Her publications include Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere (2003), the Harcourt annotated edition of Virginia Woolf s Between the Acts (2008) and contributions to A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006) and A Companion to Narrative Theory (2005). Adam Hammond recently completed an SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Victoria and is currently the Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Literature in the Digital Age: A Critical Introduction (forthcoming 2015). Alexandra Peat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Culture, Franklin University Switzerland. She is the author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (2010).

Credits and Acknowledgments viii Introduction: Unsettling Modernism x Note on References xviii A Advertising 1 Atom, Atomic 6 Avant-Garde 11 B Best Seller 15 Bigness, Smallness 20 Biography, New Biography 26 C Common Man 34 Common Mind, Group Thinking 40 Conventional, Conventionality 45 Coterie, Bloomsbury 49 D Democracy 56 Difficulty, Obscurity 63 E Einstein 70 Empire, Imperialism 77 F Fascism 85 Form, Formalism 91 G God, Gods 99 H Hamlet 107 Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow 111 Hygiene 119 I Impression, Impressionism 125 International, Internationalism 129 M Manifesto 136 Modern, Modernism 139 N Negro, New Negro 147 P Personality, Impersonality 155 Primitive 162 Propaganda 170 Q Queer, Gay 177 R Race 184 Readers, Reading 191 Reality, Realism 196 Rhythm 203 S Sentimental, Sentimentality 210 Shock, Shell Shock 214 U Unconscious 223 Universal 231 W Woman, New Woman 238 Words, Language 246 Index of Modernist Authors 254 Index of Modernist Keywords 263