Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine

AvPaul Jackson

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's study explores a variety of political and philosophical responses to modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernisms not merely as an aesthetic phenomena,but as inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against a figure usually excluded from the canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson's study further examines wartime modernisms that embraced socialist and political views. This study provides the first close analysis of cultural contributions from The New Age, tracing the radical, modernist debates that developed in its pages.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:240 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historicizing Modernism
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472527547

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Paul Jackson is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK.

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'This is an intelligent and thought-provoking study which encourages us to rethink the meaning of 'modernism'. After reading Paul Jackson's book, historians and literary scholars will have to question the utility of a narrow, aesthetic definition of modernism. Jackson shows, in several fine case studies, that the concept has equal validity for explaining the many ways in which intellectuals and politicians were trying to make sense of a world in flux. Great War Modernisms is an important contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history.'

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IntroductionChapter 1: Great War ModernismsChapter 2: A. R. Orage and Modernist Publicism in the Era of the First World WarChapter 3: War, The New Age and Guild Socialism's Political ModernismChapter 4: The New Age's Radical Intelligentsia and ModernismChapter 5: Wyndham Lewis's Modernist Aesthetics in WartimeChapter 6: H. G. Wells and the First World WarConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex