A History of Modernist Literature (eBook)
624 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-60734-3 (ISBN)
* A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture
* Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked
* The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s
Andrzej Gasiorek is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Postwar British Fiction: Realism and After (1995), Wyndham Lewis and Modernism (2003), and J. G. Ballard (2005) and the co-editor of T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism (2006), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations (2008), The Oxford History of the Novel in English Vol. 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940 (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010), and Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (2011). He is also co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures and editor of the Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies.
Preface ix
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction: Locating Modernism 1
1 Early Modernism 44
The New Woman 44
Literary Impressionism 54
Debating Imperialism 70
Early Modernist Drama 91
Edward Gordon Craig and W. B. Yeats 100
The Modern Metropolis 107
Ford Madox Ford and The English Review 118
2 'One Big Bloodless Brawl': Modernist Literature, 1910-1914 136
Introduction 136
Exploring the Machine Age 141
Poetry and the Renovation of Language 157
Imagism 166
Ford, Flint, and Eliot 176
Dubliners 184
Suffragettes, Feminists, and Egoists 189
Blast and Vorticism 203
3 Modernism During Wartime 231
Introduction 231
Pacifism, Nationalism, and Community 234
Propaganda and Ideology 250
The Good Soldier 271
Portraits of the Male Artist 278
The Politics of Gender 292
4 ' A Haughty and Proud Generation': Modernist Literature, 1918-1930 332
Introduction 332
The Backwashes of War 342
Ulysses 363
The Waste Land 381
Remaking the Novel 395
A Future for the Avant?]Garde? 412
5 Modernism in the 1930s 432
Introduction 432
Modernity and Its Discontents 444
The Situation of Poetry 469
Modernism, Race, and Colonialism 479
The Festival Theatre and Group Theatre 492
Surrealism 504
Pound/Joyce 522
6 Coda: Modernism's Afterlives 554
Index 570
"Andrzej G¹siorek's A History of Modernist
Literature is a major achievement. The author manages never to
oversimplify the range of responses of modernism even within the
works of individual authors, and he shows magisterial range over
both chronology and the various critical currents in modernist
studies over the last decades. Form and context are always in
dialog here. A History of Modernist Literature is a landmark
work. I suspect it will become a standard history of its field, and
it demonstrates an impressive blend of synthesis and
reconfiguration of often ambiguous and even self-contradictory idea
about authors and events of the period."--Scott
Klein, Wake Forest University
"This is a very impressive undertaking, both intellectually
and in the range of its contents. I can think of no other book that
covers this wide terrain so expertly . With verve, clarity and
a wealth of evidence, Andrzej Gasiorek guides the reader
through a series of complex issues, mapping the field of
relationships and positions as he proceeds. The prose style is
faultless. The commentary on individual texts, on broader
tendencies, and on the character and direction of the period is
skilful, scholarly, and of a very high order
throughout."--Peter Brooker, University of
Nottingham
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.4.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Blackwell History of Literature | Blackwell History of Literature |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | 20th Century English Literature • Englische Literatur / 20. Jhd. • Englische Literatur / Moderne • Literary Criticism & History • Literatur • Literature • Literaturkritik • Literaturkritik u. -geschichte • Literaturwissenschaft • modernism • Modernismus |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-60734-1 / 1118607341 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-60734-3 / 9781118607343 |
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