Concise Companion to Modernism

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.

‘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

• Acknowledgments viiNotes on Contributors viiiChronology xiIntroduction 1David Bradshaw1 The Life Sciences: “Everybody nowadays talks about evolution” 6Angelique Richardson2 Eugenics: “They should certainly be killed” 34David Bradshaw3 Nietzscheanism: “The Superman and the all-too-human” 56Michael Bell4 Anthropology: “The latest form of evening entertainment” 75Jeremy MacClancy5 Bergsonism: “Time out of mind” 95Mary Ann Gillies6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: “The rituals of destruction” 116Stephen Frosh7 Language: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” 138April McMahon8 Technology: “Multiplied man” 158Tim Armstrong9 The Concept of the State 1880–1939: “The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well” 179Sarah Wilkinson10 Physics: “A strange footprint” 200Michael H. Whitworth11 Modernist Publishing: “Nomads and mapmakers” 221Peter D. McDonald12 Reading: “‘Mind hungers’ common and uncommon” 243Todd Avery and Patrick BrantlingerSelect Bibliography 262Index 266