Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide

252 Pages·2015·0.78 MB·English

by  Andrzej Gasiorek

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Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis
A Critical Guide
Edited by Andrzej Ga˛siorek
and Nathan Waddell
© editorial matter and organisation Andrzej Gasiorek and
Nathan Waddell, 2015
© the chapters their several authors, 2015
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Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).
Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Andrzej Ga˛siorek and Nathan Waddell
1 Pre-War Writing 5
Louise Kane
2 Vorticism and Avant-Gardism 20
Julian Hanna
3 ‘Harsh Laughter’: Reading Tarr 35
Faith Binckes
4 Lewis and War 49
Ann-Marie Einhaus
5 Lewis and Cultural Criticism 64
Alan Munton
6 Lewis, Satire, and Literature 82
Jamie Wood
7 The Apes of God 97
David Bradshaw
8 Political Incorrectness Gone Sane: Lewis, Race, and Gender 112
Ivan Phillips
9 Lewis and Politics 128
Nathan Waddell
10 The Revenge for Love 143
Ian Patterson
11 Lewis and Technology 159
Andrzej Ga˛siorek
12 Lewis and Modernism 173
Michael Nath
vi Contents
13 The Human Age 189
Scott W. Klein
14 Self Condemned: Casualties of the Vortex 203
Miranda Hickman
15 Legacy 219
Paul Edwards
Index 234
Notes on Contributors
Faith Binckes is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
in the Department of English, Bath Spa University.
David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University
and a Fellow of Worcester College.
Paul Edwards is the author of Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer
(2000) and General Editor of the forthcoming Collected Works of
Wyndham Lewis, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Ann-Marie Einhaus is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary
Literature in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Andrzej Ga˛siorek is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Head
of the English Literature Department at the University of Birmingham.
Julian Hanna is Assistant Professor of English at the University of
Madeira, Portugal.
Miranda Hickman is Associate Professor of English at McGill University
in Montréal, Canada.
Louise Kane is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Scott W. Klein is Professor and Chair of English at Wake Forest
University.
Alan Munton is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of
English at the University of Exeter.
viii Notes on Contributors
Michael Nath is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative
Writing at the University of Westminster. http://michaelnath.wordpress.
com
Ian Patterson is Director of Studies in English and Librarian and Keeper
of the Old Library at Queens’ College, Cambridge.
Ivan Phillips is Associate Dean of School (Learning and Teaching) in the
School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire.
Nathan Waddell is an Assistant Professor of Literary Modernism in the
School of English at the University of Nottingham.
Jamie Wood is a Partner at Odey Asset Management LLP and an inde-
pendent scholar currently completing a post-doctoral study of modern-
ism and the grotesque.
List of Abbreviations
Texts by Lewis
ABR The Art of Being Ruled, ed. Reed Way Dasenbrock (Santa Rosa:
Black Sparrow Press, [1926] 1989).
ACM America and Cosmic Man (London and Brussels: Nicholson &
Watson, 1948).
AG The Apes of God, ed. Paul Edwards (Santa Barbara: Black
Sparrow Press, [1930] 1981).
ALW Anglosaxony: A League that Works (Toronto: Ryerson, 1941).
AIP America, I Presume (New York: Howell, Soskin, 1940).
B1 BLAST 1, ed. Wyndham Lewis (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow
Press, [1914] 1981).
B2 BLAST 2, ed. Wyndham Lewis (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow
Press, [1915] 1981).
BB Blasting and Bombardiering: An Autobiography (1914–1926)
(London: John Calder, [1937] 1982).
C The Childermass: Section I (London: Chatto and Windus,
1928).
CD The Caliph’s Design: Architects! Where is your Vortex?, ed.
Paul Edwards (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, [1919]
1996).
CHC Creatures of Habit, Creatures of Change: Essays on Art,
Literature and Society, 1914–1956, ed. Paul Edwards (Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1989).
CPP Collected Poems and Plays, ed. Alan Munton (Manchester:
Carcanet, 1979).
CWB The Complete Wild Body, ed. Bernard Lafourcade (Santa
Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982).
CYD Count Your Dead: They Are Alive! Or, A New War in the
Making (London: Lovat Dickson, 1937).