Wyndham Lewis

Andrzej Gasiorek is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature and Head of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. Nathan Waddell is Lecturer in Modernist Literature in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Modern John Buchan (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009) and Modernist Nowheres (Palgrave, 2012). He is a co-editor of Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (Ashgate, 2011), John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming 2013), and Utopianism and Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literary Cultures (Palgrave, forthcoming 2013). He has published several articles on modernist and early twentieth-century writers in edited collections and peer-reviewed journals, and at present is working on a project provisionally titled ‘The Musical Wars of Modernism, 1914-1945’.

Gasiorek and Waddell should be commended for bringing together a truly impressive cast of authorities on Lewis, who reaffirm here the provocative vitality of Lewis's work for modernist studies today. Critically eclectic and thematically comprehensive, this book combines broader cultural and literary-historical essays with energetic readings of key novels from Lewis's formidable oeuvre.

• List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction, Andrzej Gąsiorek and Nathan Waddell; 1. Pre-War Writing, Louise Kane; 2. Vorticism and Avant-Gardism, Julian Hanna; 3. ‘Harsh laughter’: Reading Tarr, Faith Binckes; 4. Lewis and War, Ann-Marie Einhaus; 5. Lewis and Cultural Criticism, Alan Munton; 6. Lewis, Satire, and Literature, Jamie Wood; 7. The Apes of God, David Bradshaw; 8. Political Incorrectness Gone Sane: Lewis, Race, and Gender, Ivan Phillips; 9. Lewis and Politics, Nathan Waddell; 10. The Revenge for Love, Ian Patterson; 11. Lewis and Technology, Andrzej Gąsiorek; 12. Lewis and Modernism, Michael Nath; 13. The Human Age, Scott W. Klein; 14. Self Condemned: Casualties of the Vortex, Miranda Hickman; 15. Legacy, Paul Edwards; Index