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Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used as the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early twentieth-century cul- ture. Modernism as a category is one which is constantly challenged, hybridised and fractured by voices operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates. These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our contributors’ chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M. R. James, C. L. R. James, Vernon Lee, D. H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Col- man Smith, Arthur Symons and H. G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Mod- ernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures predominately between 1890 and 1939, our volume questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume is equally sensitive to how the avant-garde felt for those living and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism. Kostas Boyiopoulos is a teaching associate at the Department of English Studies at Durham University. Anthony Patterson is an Assistant Professor of English at Celal Bayar University in Manisa, Turkey. Mark Sandy is a Professor of English at Durham University. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 50 Bringing Up War Babies The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis 1930–1960 Amanda Jane Jones 51 Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats Heart Mysteries Daniel Tompsett 52 Collage and Literature The Persistence of Vision Scarlett Higgins 53 Connecting Moments in Chinese and European Modernisms Chunjie Zhang 54 The Stability of Laughter The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature James Nikopoulos 55 Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century Jake Poller 56 Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity Commercial Cosmopolitanism June Hee Chung 57 Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism Unsettling Presences Edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, and Mark Sandy For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism Unsettling Presences Edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson and Mark Sandy First published 2019 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 Taylor & Francis The right of Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, and Mark Sandy to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Boyiopoulos, Kostas, editor. | Patterson, Anthony (College teacher of English literature), editor. | Sandy, Mark, 1970– editor. Title: Literary and cultural alternatives to modernism : unsettling presences / edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, and Mark Sandy. Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019001694 (print) | LCCN 2019008095 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain. | English literature—20th century—History and criticism. Classification: LCC PR478.M6 (ebook) | LCC PR478.M6 L57 2019 (print) | DDC 820.9/112—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019001694 ISBN: 978-1-138-71021-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-26185-5 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra In memory of Michael O’Neill (1953–2018); a true poet, critic and friend. Contents Acknowledgements xi List of Contributors xiii Introduction: Alternatives to Modernism: Dissonant Voices and Multiple Modernities, 1890–1939 1 KOSTAS BOYIOPOULOS, ANTHONY PATTERSON AND MARK SANDY PART I Unsettled Voices: Imaginative and Cultural Encounters 21 1 Rhetoric and Feeling in Rupert Brooke 23 ANDREW HODGSON 2 Strange Truths: Romantic Reimaginings in Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon 38 MARK SANDY 3 ‘Now I Climb Alone’: Poetic Subjectivity in Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Stephen Spender 52 MICHAEL O’NEILL PART II Dissenting Voices: Aestheticism, Gender and the Art of Identity 69 4 Pamela Colman Smith, Anansi and the Child: From The Green Sheaf (1903) to The Anti-Suffrage Alphabet (1912) 71 KATHARINE COCKIN viii Contents 5 Maverick Modernists: Sapphic Trajectories from Vernon Lee to D. H. Lawrence 85 SONDEEP KANDOLA 6 ‘Modernistic Shone the Lamplight’: Arthur Symons among the Moderns 101 KOSTAS BOYIOPOULOS 7 Richard Le Gallienne: A Jongleur Strayed into the Modern World 118 MARGARET D. STETz PART III Double Voices: Central and Peripheral Transactions 133 8 ‘If I’m Not Very Careful, Something of This Kind May Happen to Me!’: The Preordained Role of the Reader in M. R. James’s Ghost Stories 135 LUKE SEABER 9 ‘A Large Mouth Shown to a Dentist’: G. K. Chesterton’s Surgical Parodying of T. S. Eliot 149 MICHAEL SHALLCROSS 10 Modernist or Realist?: The Double Vision of E. M. Forster 169 KATE SYMONDSON 11 The Amateur Modernist: C. L. R. James in Bloomsbury 184 SAIKAT MAJUMDAR PART IV Popular Voices: Questions of Realism, Politics and Modernity 199 12 The Iconoclasm of H. G. Wells and the Modernist Canon 201 CAREY SNYDER 13 Writing for a New Age: Arnold Bennett and the Avant-Garde 214 ANTHONY PATTERSON Contents ix 14 Parade’s End and the Modernist Legacy of Nineteenth- Century Literary Toryism 229 KOENRAAD CLAES Selected Bibliography 247 Index 251