Modernism (eBook)

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

"Everyone teaching literary modernism should spend time with this book."
--James Gifford, University of Toronto Quarterly

"Their resources build from primary texts and through the ready resources in the Modernist Journals Project, JSTOR, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and so forth. The great merit of this approach is its adept management of primary and secondary materials, moving between the terms used in the modernist period, conceived here loosely as from 1880 to 1950, and the keywords used in scholarship. The result is a deliberately use-oriented collection of keywords for the study of modernism. The most immediate audience will be undergraduate students, but graduate-level and researcher use is also certain."
--James Gifford, University of Toronto Quarterly

"Modernism Keywords will be an indispensable resource from the moment it appears. The work is rigorous in theoretical conception, broad in historical reach, and powerfully revisionary in its implications for modernist study. It falls within the distinguished legacy of Raymond Williams but also applies the most current methods to an expanding archive of modernist texts. Scholars and students at every level will keep it close at hand."
--Michael Levenson, University of Virginia