The Modernism Handbook (Literature and Culture Handbooks)

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: • Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts • Guides to key critics, concepts and topics • An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research • Case studies in reading literary and critical texts • Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Modernism Handbook is an invaluable introduction edited by Philip tew and Alex Murray to British Modernism as a literary movement. Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgements 14 List of Illustrations 16 General Editors’ Introduction 18 1 Introduction: Beginning with Modernism 20 All Change 23 Technology, Transport, Communication 23 The First World War 26 Modernity and Modernism 30 2 Timeline 1890–1941 35 3 Historical Context of Modernist Literature 45 The First World War and Its Aftermath 45 Politics and Economics 47 The Position of the ‘Other’ 50 Culture 54 Science and Technology 57 4 Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events 62 Figures 63 Wystan Hugh (‘W.H.’) Auden (1907–1973) 63 Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) 64 Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) 64 Thomas Stearns (‘T.S.’) Eliot (1888–1965) 65 William Faulkner (1897–1952) 66 Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) 67 James Joyce (1882–1941) 68 David Herbert Richards (‘D.H.’) Lawrence (1885–1930) 69 Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) 69 Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) 70 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 71 Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 72 Marcel Proust (1871–1922) 73 Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) 74 William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) 74 Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) 75 William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) 76 Genres, Movements and Contexts 77 Bloomsbury Group 77 Cubism 78 Dada 79 Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity 79 Futurism 80 Imagism 80 Manifestoes 81 Modernist Journals 81 Omega Workshops 82 Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1910 82 Suffragettes 83 Surrealism 83 Vorticism 84 5 Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts 85 Who’s Afraid of Reading Modernism? 85 T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) 87 Allusive Histories in ‘The Burial of the Dead’ 88 W.B. Yeats, ‘Easter 1916’ (1921) 92 ‘A Terrible Beauty is Born’: The Violence of Sacrifice 93 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, (1899/1902) 96 ‘The Horror, the Horror’: Ambivalence in Heart of Darkness 97 May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) 100 ‘Pussycat, Pussycat’: Repetition and Repression 101 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925) 104 ‘What a lark! What a plunge!’: Mrs Dalloway’s London 105 6 Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts 109 Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995) 110 Marianne DeKoven, Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism (1991) 114 Houston A. Baker, Jr, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987) 120 Lawrence Rainey, Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Cultures (1998) 125 7 Key Critical Concepts and Topics (Including a survey of major critical figures) 131 Introduction 132 Critical Concepts 132 The City 132 Cultural Sterility and Renewal 134 Empire and Crisis 136 Gender and Identity 138 Modernism and Form 140 Sexuality 142 Time and Flux 143 Critical Figures 145 Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) 145 Clive Bell (1881–1964) 145 Henri Bergson (1859–1941) 146 Charles Darwin (1809–1882) 147 Albert Einstein (1879–1955) 147 Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) 148 Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) 148 William James (1842–1910) 149 Adolf Loos (1870–1933) 149 Karl Marx (1818–1883) 150 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 151 Max Nordau (1849–1923) 152 Georg Simmel (1858–1918) 152 Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) 153 8 Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches 154 An Old and New Approach 155 The City and Human Character 158 Modernists on Art 160 Romantics and Classicists 163 Futurism and Dada 165 The View from Bloomsbury 167 Marxists on Modernism 168 Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Approaches to Modernism 171 9 Changes in the Canon 177 Creating a Canon 178 Literary Theory 179 Class, Cultural Economy and Modernist Elites 180 Gender and Sexuality 182 Postcolonialism 184 Temporal Co-ordinates 186 Conclusion 188 10 Gender and Modernism 189 11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape 205 Locating the Field 205 Key Critical Works 208 Current and Future Trends 212 Glossary 218 Avant-garde 219 Carnivalesque 219 Dada or Dadaism 220 Deconstruction 220 Defamiliarization 220 The Enlightenment 221 Epiphany 221 Epistemology 222 Feminism 222 Feminist Criticism 223 Fin de siècle 223 Free Indirect Discourse 223 Genre 224 Historiographic Metafiction 224 Historiography 224 Hybridity 225 Intertextuality 225 Irony 226 Marxism/Marxist 226 Modernism 227 Myth 227 Metafiction 228 Metaphysics 228 Modernity 229 Parody 229 Picaresque Novel 229 Postcolonial Criticism 230 Postmodernism 230 Poststructuralism 231 Provincial (and Regional) Novel 231 Realism 231 Satire 232 Stream of Consciousness 232 Surrealism 232 Taylorism 233 The Uncanny 233 Appendix: Teaching, Learning and the Curricula of Modernism 234 Notes on Contributors 236 Notes 238 Annotated Bibliography 240 Useful Websites 258 Index 262 A 262 B 262 C 262 D 263 E 263 F 263 G 264 H 264 I 264 J 265 K 265 L 265 M 265 N 266 O 266 P 266 Q 266 R 266 S 267 T 267 U 267 V 267 W 267 Y 267 Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction: Beginning With Modernism / Philip Tew / Alex Murray -- 2. Timeline 1890-1941 / Nicola Allen -- 3. Historical Context Of Modernist Literature / Leigh Wilson -- 4. Literary And Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events / Emmett Stinson -- 5. Case Studies In Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts / Jeannette Baxter -- 6. Case Studies In Reading 2: Key Theoretical And Critical Texts / Bryony Randall -- 7. Key Critical Concepts And Topics (including A Survey Of Major Critical Figures) / David Ian Paddy -- 8. Changes In Critical Responses And Approaches / Gary Day -- 9. Changes In The Canon / Alex Murray -- 10. Gender And Modernism / Deborah Parsons -- 11. Mapping The Current Critical Landscape / Andrew Thacker -- Appendix. Teaching, Learning And The Curricula Of Modernism / Steven Barfield. Edited By Philip Tew And Alex Murray. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 221-237) And Index.