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Modernism, 1910–1945 transitions General Editor: Julian Wolfreys Published titles ORWELL TO THE PRESENT: LITERATURE IN ENGLAND, 1945–2000 John Brannigan CHAUCER TO SHAKESPEARE, 1337–1580 SunHee Kim Gertz MODERNISM, 1910–1945: IMAGE TO APOCALYPSE Jane Goldman POPE TO BURNEY, 1714–1779 Moyra Haslett PATER TO FORSTER, 1873–1924 Ruth Robbins BURKE TO BYRON, BARBAULD TO BAILLIE, 1790–1830 Jane Stabler MILTON TO POPE, 1650–1720 Kay Gilliland Stevenson SIDNEY TO MILTON, 1580–1660 Marion Wynne-Davies BATAILLE Fred Botting and Scott Wilson NEW HISTORICISM AND CULTURAL MATERIALISM John Brannigan GENDER Claire Colebrook POSTMODERN NARRATIVE THEORY Mark Currie FORMALIST CRITICISM AND READER-RESPONSE THEORY Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack IDEOLOGY James M. Decker QUEER THEORIES Donald E. Hall MARXIST LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY Moyra Haslett LOUIS ALTHUSSER Warren Montag RACE Brian Niro JACQUES LACAN Jean-Michel Rabaté LITERARY FEMINISMS Ruth Robbins DECONSTRUCTION •DERRIDA Julian Wolfreys Forthcoming titles DICKENS TO HARDY, 1837–1884 Julian Wolfreys TERRY EAGLETON David Alderson JULIA KRISTEVA AND LITERARY THEORY Megan Becker-Leckrone NATIONAL IDENTITY John Brannigan HÉLÈNE CIXOUS: WRITING AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE Abigail Bray HOMI BHABHA Eleanor Byrne POSTMODERNISM•POSTMODERNITY Martin McQuillan ROLAND BARTHES Martin McQuillan MODERNITY David Punter PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE Nicholas Rand SUBJECTIVITY Ruth Robbins POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Malini Johan Schueller TRANSGRESSION JuIian Wolfreys transitions Series Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–73684–6 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. 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Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England transitions M o d e r n i s m , 1 9 1 0 – 1 9 4 5 I m a g e t o A p o c a l y p s e Jane Goldman © Jane Goldman 2004(cid:1) All rights reserved.(cid:1)No reproduction,(cid:1)copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.(cid:1) No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,(cid:1)copied or transmitted(cid:1) save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,(cid:1)Designs and Patents Act 1988,(cid:1) or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,(cid:1)90 Tottenham Court Road,(cid:1) London W1T 4LP.(cid:1) Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication(cid:1) may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.(cid:1) The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright,(cid:1)Designs and Patents Act 1988.(cid:1) First published 2004 by(cid:1) PALGRAVE MACMILLAN(cid:1) Houndmills,(cid:1)Basingstoke,(cid:1)Hampshire RG21 6XS and(cid:1) 175 Fifth Avenue,(cid:1)New York,(cid:1)N.Y.(cid:1)10010(cid:1) Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave(cid:1) Macmillan division of St.(cid:1)Martin’s Press,(cid:1)LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.(cid:1) Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,(cid:1)United Kingdom(cid:1) and other countries.(cid:1)Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European(cid:1) Union and other countries.(cid:1) ISBN 0–333–69620–4 hardback(cid:1) ISBN 0–333–69621–2 paperbac(cid:1)k(cid:1) This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully(cid:1) managed and sustained forest sources.(cid:1) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.(cid:1) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data(cid:1) Goldman,(cid:1)Jane,(cid:1)1960–(cid:1) Modernism,(cid:1)1910–1945 :(cid:1)image to apocalypse / Jane Goldman.(cid:1) p.(cid:1)cm.(cid:1)— (Transitions) Includes bibliographical references (p.(cid:1)) and index. ISBN 0–333–69620–4 (cloth) — ISBN 0–333–69621–2 ((cid:1)paper) 1.(cid:1)English literature—20th century—History and criticism.(cid:1) 2.(cid:1)Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain.(cid:1)3.(cid:1)American literature—20th century—History and criticism.(cid:1)4.(cid:1)Modernism (Literature)—United States.(cid:1) I.(cid:1)Title.(cid:1)II.(cid:1)Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))(cid:1) PR478.M6G65 2004(cid:1) 820.9'112—dc21 2003054923(cid:1) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (cid:1) 13(cid:1) 12(cid:1) 11(cid:1) 10(cid:1) 09(cid:1) 08(cid:1) 07(cid:1) 06(cid:1) 05(cid:1) 04(cid:1) Printed in China(cid:1) Oh, give me liberty! for even were paradise my prison, Still I should long to leap the crystal walls (John Dryden) For Gus and Roberta, with love C o n t e n t s General Editor’s Preface ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xxiii 1 Introduction: “Make It New” A Guide to Transitions in the Period of Modernism and the Avant-Garde 1 Part I 1910: Image, Order, War 31 2 Literature after 1910: Formalism, the Visual Arts and Cultural Change 33 3 Tradition, Order, War and the Dead: Critical and Cultural Contexts for T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 77 4 The Egoist, War, Hell and Image: T. S. Eliot, Dora Marsden, John Rodker, Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington 104 5 “Tradition” and “Mrs Brown”: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf 143 Part II Image, Gender, Apocalypse 161 6 Rude Mouths: Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Virginia Woolf, Nathanael West and Ezra Pound 163 vii viii Contents 7 Gender Wars in Hell: James Joyce, Kurt Schwitters, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf 199 Part III Apocalypse 1945 209 8 Order, Night, Rage: Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Eugene Jolas, James Joyce, W. H. Auden and Nathanael West 211 9 Apocalypse, Auschwitz, the Bomb and After: Virginia Woolf, David Gascoyne, Paul Celan, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein and Kurt Schwitters 237 Chronology 256 Annotated Bibliography 272 Bibliography and References 276 Index 291 G e n e r a l E d i t o r ’s P r e f a c e Transitions: transition–, n. of action. 1. A passing or passage from one condition, action or (rarely) place, to another. 2. Passage in thought, speech, or writing, from one subject to another. 3. a. The passing from one note to another. b. The passing from one key to another, modulation. 4. The passage from an earlier to a later stage of develop- ment or formation . . . change from an earlier style to a later; a style of intermediate or mixed character . . . the historical passage of language from one well-defined stage to another. The aim of Transitions is to explore passages and movements in language, literature and culture from Chaucer to the present day. The series also seeks to examine the ways in which the very idea of transi- tion affects the reader’s sense of period so as to address anew ques- tions of literary history and periodisation. The writers in this series unfold the cultural and historical mediations of literature during what are commonly recognised as crucial moments in the development of English literature, addressing, as the OED puts it, the “historical passage of language from one well-defined stage to another”. Recognising the need to contextualise literary study, the authors offer close readings of canonical and now marginalised or overlooked literary texts from all genres, bringing to this study the rigour of historical knowledge and the sophistication of theoretically informed evaluations of writers and movements from the last 700 years. At the same time as each writer, whether Chaucer or Shakespeare, Milton or Pope, Byron, Dickens, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf or Salman Rushdie, is shown to produce his or her texts within a discernible historical, cultural, ideological and philosophical milieu, the text is read from the vantage point of recent theoretical interests and concerns. The purpose in bringing theoretical knowledge to the reading of a wide range of works is to demonstrate how the literature is always open to transition, whether in the instance of its production or in succeeding moments of its critical reception. ix

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Modernism, 1910-1945 explores and celebrates the rise and development of modernist and avant-garde literatures and theories of this particular period, from Imagism to the Apocalypse movement. Jane Goldman charts transitions in writing, reading, performing and publishing practices, and in internation
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