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Book SynopsisModernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.
Trade Review"Modernist Nowheres addresses an enduring and wide-ranging set of canonical modernist writers in Conrad, Lewis, Lawrence, Wells and Ford, and delves into the archives to mobilize less well-known material to support the argument. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to this burgeoning branch of modernist studies." - Andrew Frayn, Ford Madox Ford Society newsletter
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Maps Worth Glancing At Meliorism and Edwardian Modernity Questions of Perfectibility Forlorn Hopes and The English Review Magnetic Cities and Simple Lives Individualism, Happiness, and Labour Vorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and War Idealisms and Contingencies Conclusion Bibliography Index
