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A History of Modernist Literature

Blackwell History of Literature 1. Aufl.

von: Andrzej Gasiorek
87,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	20.04.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781118607336
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	624

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Titelbeschreibung

A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. <ul> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> </ul>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Autorenportrait

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.

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A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England from the 1890s to the Second World War. From the New Woman writers and Ford Madox Ford’s The English Review to seminal works such as BLAST, Ulysses and The Waste Land, it focuses on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of this transatlantic phenomenon. In addition to the contribution individual writers made to modernism, the book also explores the intellectual debates, networks and communities that facilitated the creation of key literary works. The book is chronologically organized, spanning early modernism, the period 1910-1914, modernism during wartime, the years 1918-1930, and modernism in the 1930s, and it concludes with a brief exploration of modernism’s afterlives in the post-1945 period. At once a comprehensive survey, and a detailed critical account of modernism as it developed and changed over this forty-year span, A History of Modernist Literature is essential reading for anyone in the fields of modernism and early twentieth-century English literature.

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“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