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Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain and helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.

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This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain.Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres.Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

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This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts which shaped it. The book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor deals with his or her topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the contributors identify contemporary developments in other disciplines, especially art, architecture, music, film, and philosophy, which paralleled developments in poetry, fiction, and drama. Each chapter concludes with a brief guide to further reading.Through reading this Companion, students will gain an understanding of Modernism as a historical and cultural phenomenon, as well as a literary movement.

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This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts which shaped it. The book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor deals with his or her topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the contributors identify contemporary developments in other disciplines, especially art, architecture, music, film, and philosophy, which paralleled developments in poetry, fiction, and drama. Each chapter concludes with a brief guide to further reading.Through reading this Companion , students will gain an understanding of Modernism as a historical and cultural phenomenon, as well as a literary movement.

Author Biography

David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, University of Oxford. Among other volumes, he has edited Brave New World (1994), The Hidden Huxley (1994), Women in Love (1998), Mrs Dalloway (2000), Decline and Fall (2001), and The Good Soldier (2002). He has also published extensively on Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and various aspects of literature and politics in the 1930s. He is an Editor of the Review of English Studies and a Fellow of the English Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Notes on Contributors viii Chronology xi Introduction 1David Bradshaw 1 The Life Sciences: "Everybody nowadays talks about evolution" 6Angelique Richardson 2 Eugenics: "They should certainly be killed" 34David Bradshaw 3 Nietzscheanism: "The Superman and the all-too-human" 56Michael Bell 4 Anthropology: "The latest form of evening entertainment" 75Jeremy MacClancy 5 Bergsonism: "Time out of mind" 95Mary Ann Gillies 6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: "The rituals of destruction" 116Stephen Frosh 7 Language: "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" 138April McMahon 8 Technology: "Multiplied man" 158Tim Armstrong 9 The Concept of the State 1880–1939: "The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well" 179Sarah Wilkinson 10 Physics: "A strange footprint" 200Michael H. Whitworth 11 Modernist Publishing: "Nomads and mapmakers" 221Peter D. McDonald 12 Reading: "'Mind hungers' common and uncommon" 243Todd Avery and Patrick Brantlinger Select Bibliography 262 Index 266

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'This is the most exciting and vibrant introduction to Anglo-American Modernism yet to appear. ... The Concise Companion to Modernism is bound to become the main textbook for all those who want to understand more deeply the culture of the first three decades of the last century.' Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "[...] I would recommend this volume to any library with a readership who comes either out of interest, or as students of the period needing to understand the context in which ideas emerged, looking for a way into the text. [...]A select bibliography at the end of the book provides even more options for advanced research, completing a most useful guidebook to some interesting themes." Reference Review"[McDonald] supplies everything any reader would need to understand the whole social and critical history of modernist publishing." James Joyce Quarterly

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This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts which shaped it. The book consists of twelve chapters written by leading scholars, each spotlighting ideas emanating from a particular field which helped to shape Modernism, including eugenics, primitivism, Freudianism, and Nietzscheanism. Each contributor deals with his or her topic in some depth, but also pays attention to the impact it had on overarching issues. At the same time, the contributors identify contemporary developments in other disciplines, especially art, architecture, music, film, and philosophy, which paralleled developments in poetry, fiction, and drama. Each chapter concludes with a brief guide to further reading.Through reading this Companion , students will gain an understanding of Modernism as a historical and cultural phenomenon, as well as a literary movement.

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?This is the most exciting and vibrant introduction to Anglo-American Modernism yet to appear. ... The Concise Companion to Modernism is bound to become the main textbook for all those who want to understand more deeply the culture of the first three decades of the last century.? Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "[...] I would recommend this volume to any library with a readership who comes either out of interest, or as students of the period needing to understand the context in which ideas emerged, looking for a way into the text. [...]A select bibliography at the end of the book provides even more options for advanced research, completing a most useful guidebook to some interesting themes." Reference Review"[McDonald] supplies everything any reader would need to understand the whole social and critical history of modernist publishing." James Joyce Quarterly

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& 'This is the most exciting and vibrant introduction to Anglo-American Modernism yet to appear. ... The Concise Companion to Modernism is bound to become the main textbook for all those who want to understand more deeply the culture of the first three decades of the last century. & ' Jean-Michel Rabat &

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Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain. Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism. Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres. Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

Details ISBN0631220550 Language English ISBN-10 0631220550 ISBN-13 9780631220558 Media Book Format Paperback Edited by David Bradshaw Birth 1955 Pages 308 Edition 1st Short Title CONCISE COMP TO MODERNISM DOI 10.1604/9780631220558 UK Release Date 2002-11-02 AU Release Date 2002-11-02 NZ Release Date 2002-11-02 US Release Date 2002-11-02 Author David Bradshaw Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-11-02 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9780631220541 DEWEY 820.900914 Audience Professional & Vocational Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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