Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at Oxford University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernist literature, including the Oxford World’s Classics editions of Lawrence’s Women in Love (1998), Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006), and the Penguin Classics editions of Waugh’s Decline and Fall (2001) and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor of A Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and is Victorian and Modern Literature Editor of the Review of English Studies. Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College, California. He has written and edited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernist literature and culture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, and has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is series editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature & Culture series published by Oxford University Press.

• Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1Kevin J. H. DettmarPART I Origins, Beginnings, and the New 71 Philosophy 9Jean-Michel Rabaté2 Religion 19Pericles Lewis3 Politics 29Tyrus Miller4 The Physical Sciences 39Michael H. Whitworth5 The Biological Sciences 50Angelique Richardson6 Technology 66Sara Danius7 Psychology 79Perry Meisel8 Anthropology 92Patricia Rae9 Obscenity and Censorship 103David Bradshaw10 Language 113R. M. Berry11 Geography 123Nico Israel12 Publishing 133Mark S. Morrisson13 Sex and Sexuality 143Liesl OlsonPART II Movements 15314 Literary Symbolism 155Marshall C. Olds15 Dada 163Robert Short16 Futurism 169Tyrus Miller17 Vorticism 176Alan Munton18 Imagism 183Patrick McGuinness19 Surrealism 189Mary Ann Caws20 Expressionism 198Richard Murphy21 Literary Impressionism 204Max SaundersPART III Modernist Genres and Modern Media 21322 The Novel 215Jesse Matz23 Poetry 227Adam Parkes24 Drama 237Stephen Watt25 The Visual Arts 244Richard Weston26 Film 250Laura Marcus27 Music 258Bernard Gendron28 Dance 265Susan Jones29 Architecture 272Lee Morrissey30 Photography 278Maggie HummPART IV Readings 28531 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger! 287Steven Matthews32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood 297Rebecca Loncraine33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy 306H. Porter Abbott34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 314Brian W. Shaffer35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 324David Chinitz36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 333Karl F. Zender37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 342Ruth Prigozy38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier 350Sara Haslam39 The Poetry of H. D. 358Diana Collecott40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew 367Edward Brunner41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God 376Cheryl A. Wall42 James Joyce: Ulysses 384Michael Patrick Gillespie43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love 393Joyce Piell Wexler44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr 402Andrzej Gasiorek45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker 411Michael Thurston46 Marianne Moore: Observations 422Catherine Paul47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 431Michael Coyle48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage 440Laura Marcus49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives 450Jaime Hovey50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 459Jonathan Levin51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts 469Jay Martin52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson 478Daniel Morris53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 486Pamela L. Caughie54 Richard Wright: Native Son 499Bill V. Mullen55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) 507Edward Larrissy56 Modernist Critical Prose 516Gary S. WihlPART V Other Modernisms 52557 Modernism and Race 527Martha Jane Nadell58 Modernism and Gender 535Bonnie Kime Scott59 Modernism Queered 542Laura Doan and Jane Garrity60 Postcolonial Modernism 551Bart Moore-Gilbert61 Global Modernisms 558Melba Cuddy-Keane62 Postmodernism 565Bran NicolEpilogue: Modernism Now 571Marjorie PerloffIndex 579