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A History of Modernist Literature BLACKWELL HISTORIES OF LITERATURE General editor: Peter Brown, University of Kent, Canterbury The books in this series renew and redefine a familiar form by recognizing that to write literary history involves more than placing texts in chrono- logical sequence. Thus, the emphasis within each volume falls both on plotting the significant literary developments of a given period, and on the wider cultural contexts within which they occurred. ‘Cultural history’ is construed in broad terms, and authors address such issues as politics, society, the arts, ideologies, varieties of literary production and consump- tion, and dominant genres and modes. The effect of each volume is to give the reader a sense of possessing a crucial sector of literary terrain, of understanding the forces that give a period its distinctive cast, and of see- ing how writing of a given period impacts on, and is shaped by, its cultural circumstances. Published to date Seventeenth‐Century English Literature Thomas N. Corns Victorian Literature James Eli Adams Old English Literature, Second Edition R. D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain Modernist Literature Andrzej Gąsiorek Forthcoming: Eighteenth‐Century British Literature John Richetti Romantic Literature Frederick Burwick A HISTORy OF MOdERnIST LITERATURE Andrzej Gasiorek ̨ This edition first published 2015 © 2015 Andrzej Gąsiorek. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148‐5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book, please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley‐blackwell. The right of Andrzej Gąsiorek to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publisher is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It is sold on the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services and neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for damages arising herefrom. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a  competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Gasiorek, Andrzej, 1960– A history of modernist literature / Andrzej Gasiorek. – First edition. pages cm. – (Blackwell history of literature ; 7) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4051-7716-0 (hardback) 1. Modernism (Literature)–England. I. Title. PR478.M6G38 2015 820.9′112–dc23 2014039727 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Wyndham Lewis, Dancing Figures, 1914. Private collection. © The Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust / Bridgeman Images Set in 10.5/13pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2015 ‘I began at the beginning, like an old ballocks, can you imagine that?’ (Samuel Beckett) ‘He who represents the course of a human life, or a sequence of events extending over a prolonged period of time, and represents it from beginning to end, must prune and isolate arbitrarily’. (Erich Auerbach) Contents 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 viii Contents 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

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