History of Modernist Literature

Andrzej Gasiorek is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Postwar British Fiction: Realism and After (1995), Wyndham Lewis and Modernism (2003), and J. G. Ballard (2005) and the co-editor of T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism (2006), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations (2008), The Oxford History of the Novel in English Vol. 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940 (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010), and Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (2011). He is also co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures and editor of the Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies.

• Preface ixAbbreviations xivIntroduction: Locating Modernism 11 Early Modernism 44The New Woman 44Literary Impressionism 54Debating Imperialism 70Early Modernist Drama 91Edward Gordon Craig and W. B. Yeats 100The Modern Metropolis 107Ford Madox Ford and The English Review 1182 ‘One Big Bloodless Brawl’: Modernist Literature, 1910–1914 136Introduction 136Exploring the Machine Age 141Poetry and the Renovation of Language 157Imagism 166Ford, Flint, and Eliot 176Dubliners 184Suffragettes, Feminists, and Egoists 189Blast and Vorticism 2033 Modernism During Wartime 231Introduction 231Pacifism, Nationalism, and Community 234Propaganda and Ideology 250The Good Soldier 271Portraits of the Male Artist 278The Politics of Gender 2924 ‘ A Haughty and Proud Generation’: Modernist Literature, 1918–1930 332Introduction 332The Backwashes of War 342Ulysses 363The Waste Land 381Remaking the Novel 395A Future for the Avant]Garde? 4125 Modernism in the 1930s 432Introduction 432Modernity and Its Discontents 444The Situation of Poetry 469Modernism, Race, and Colonialism 479The Festival Theatre and Group Theatre 492Surrealism 504Pound/Joyce 5226 Coda: Modernism’s Afterlives 554Index 570