Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004. For many years affiliated with the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University, he was an editor of the journal Poetics Today from 1979 to 2004. Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series.

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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction - Brian McHale and Randall StevensonSection I. The First Moderns1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness - Vassiliki Kolocotroni2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings - Linda Kinnahan3. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well' - Randall Stevenson4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero - Michael NorthSection II. Between the Wars5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest - Jane Goldman6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude - Chris Baldick7: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World - Cary Nelson8. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History - Tyrus MillerSection III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax - Philip Mead10. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture - Alan Nadel11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow - Rick Rylance12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back' - Patrick Williams13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity - R. Clifton Spargo14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer - Patricia WaughSection IV. Millennium Approaches15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show' - John Hellmann16. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global - Ursula K. Heise17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred - Cairns Craig19. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire -Andrew Teverson19. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After - Louise Bethlehem20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions - Joseph Tabbi21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison - Abdulrazak GurnahCoda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's - Brian McHale and Randall StevensonNotes on ContributorsIndex

Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004. For many years affiliated with the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University, he was an editor of the journal Poetics Today from 1979 to 2004. Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series.

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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction - Brian McHale and Randall StevensonSection I. The First Moderns1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness - Vassiliki Kolocotroni2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings - Linda Kinnahan3. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well' - Randall Stevenson4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero - Michael NorthSection II. Between the Wars5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest - Jane Goldman6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude - Chris Baldick7: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World - Cary Nelson8. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History - Tyrus MillerSection III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax - Philip Mead10. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture - Alan Nadel11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow - Rick Rylance12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back' - Patrick Williams13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity - R. Clifton Spargo14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer - Patricia WaughSection IV. Millennium Approaches15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show' - John Hellmann16. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global - Ursula K. Heise17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred - Cairns Craig19. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire -Andrew Teverson19. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After - Louise Bethlehem20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions - Joseph Tabbi21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison - Abdulrazak GurnahCoda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's - Brian McHale and Randall StevensonNotes on ContributorsIndex

Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004. For many years affiliated with the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University, he was an editor of the journal Poetics Today from 1979 to 2004. Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series.

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• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction - Brian McHale and Randall StevensonSection I. The First Moderns1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness - Vassiliki Kolocotroni2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings - Linda Kinnahan3. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well' - Randall Stevenson4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero - Michael NorthSection II. Between the Wars5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest - Jane Goldman6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude - Chris Baldick7: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World - Cary Nelson8. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History - Tyrus MillerSection III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax - Philip Mead10. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture - Alan Nadel11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow - Rick Rylance12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back' - Patrick Williams13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity - R. Clifton Spargo14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer - Patricia WaughSection IV. Millennium Approaches15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show' - John Hellmann16. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global - Ursula K. Heise17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred - Cairns Craig19. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire -Andrew Teverson19. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After - Louise Bethlehem20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions - Joseph Tabbi21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison - Abdulrazak GurnahCoda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's - Brian McHale and Randall StevensonNotes on ContributorsIndex