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Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsPreface 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
