Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature

Ulrika Maude is Reader in Modernism and 20th-Century Literature at the University of Bristol, UK. Her publications include Beckett, Technology and the Body (2009), The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (2015) and Samuel Beckett and Medicine (2019).Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He is Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.

In the short but excellent ‘Resources’ section, Alex Pestell and Sean Pryor cover key terms from ‘avant-garde’ to ‘vers libre’ - and include valuable summaries of how concepts such as ‘fascism’, ‘primitivism’, ‘race’ and ‘high modernism’ shape how we think about modernist literature - while an extensive annotated bibliography of major works of criticism provides a good grounding for students wishing to explore the subject further.

• AcknowledgementsContributors1. Introduction, Ulrika MaudePart I: Defining the Field and Research Issues The Modernist Everyday2. Anything but a Clean Relationship: Modernism and the Everyday, Scott McCracken3. Geographies of Modernism, Andrew Thacker 4. Modernism and Language Scepticism, Shane Weller5. Modernism and Emotion, Kirsty Martin 6. Myth and Religion in Modernist Literature, Michael Bell The Arts and Cultures of Modernism7. Modernism and Music, Tim Armstrong8. Modernism and the Visual Arts: Kant, Bergson, Beckett, Conor Carville9. Modernist Literature and Film, Laura Marcus10. Modernism and Popular Culture, Lawrence Rainey11. Modernist Magazines, Faith Binckes12. Minding Manuscripts: Modernism, Genetic Criticism and Intertextual Cognition, Dirk Van Hulle The Sciences and Technologies of Modernism13. Einstein, Relativity and Literary Modernism, Paul Sheehan14. Modernism, Sexuality and Gender, Jana Funke 15. Modernism, Neurology and the Invention of Psychoanalysis Ulrika Maude16. Modernism, Psychoanalysis and other Psychologies, Laura Salisbury17. Modernism and Technology, Julian Murphet The Geopolitics and Economics of Modernism18. Can there be a Global Modernism? Emily Hayman and Pericles Lewis19. A Departure from Modernism: Stylistic Strategies in Modern Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity, Benita Parry20. Modernist Literature and Politics, Tyrus Miller 21. A New Sense of Value: Modernism and Economics, Ronald SchleiferPart II: Resources 22. A to Z of Key Words, Alex Pestell and Sean Pryor 23. Annotated Bibliography, Alexander Howard ChronologyIndex