A Concise Companion to Modernism (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)

✍ Scribed by David Bradshaw

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain. Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism. Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres. Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

✦ Table of Contents

A Concise Companion to Modernism......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Chronology......Page 14
Introduction......Page 28
1 The Life Sciences:“Everybody nowadays talks about evolution ”......Page 33
2 Eugenics:“They should certainly be killed ”......Page 61
3 Nietzscheanism:“The Superman and the all-too-human ”......Page 83
4 Anthropology:“The latest form of evening entertainment ”......Page 102
5 Bergsonism:“Time out of mind ”......Page 122
6 Psychoanalysis in Britain:“The rituals of destruction ”......Page 143
7 Language:“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake ”......Page 165
8 Technology:“Multiplied man ”......Page 185
9 The Concept of the State 1880 –1939:“The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well ”......Page 206
10 Physics:“A strange footprint ”......Page 227
11 Modernist Publishing:“Nomads and mapmakers ”......Page 248
12 Reading:“‘Mind hungers ’ common and uncommon ”......Page 270
Select Bibliography......Page 289
Index......Page 293