A history of modernist literature /
- 1st ed.
- UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
- xiv. 570 p.:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Locating Modernism 1 Early Modernism The New Woman Literary Impressionism Debating Imperialism Early Modernist Drama Edward Gordon Craig and W. B. Yeats The Modern Metropolis Ford Madox Ford and TTje English Review 2 ’One Big Bloodless Brawl’: Modernist Literature, 1910-1914 Introduction Exploring the Machine Age Poetry and the Renovation of Language Imagism Ford, Flint, and Eliot Dubliners Suffragettes, Feminists, and Egoists Blast and Vorticism 3 Modernism During Wartime Introduction Pacifism, Nationalism, and Community Propaganda and Ideology The Good Soldier Portraits of the Male Artist The Politics of Gender 4 ’A Haughty and Proud Generation’: Modernist Literature, 1918-1930 Introduction The Backwashes of War Ulysses Use Waste Land Remaking the Novel A Future for the Avant-Garde? 5 Modernism in the 1930s Introduction Modernity and Its Discontents The Situation of Poetry Modernism, Race, and Colonialism The Festival Theatre and Group Theatre Surrealism Pound/Joyce 6 Coda: Modernism’s Afterlives
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Modernism (Literature)--England. Literary Criticism/ European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.