Bradshaw A Concise Companion to Modernism

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4871-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradshaw, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Chronology xi
Introduction 1
David Bradshaw
1 The Life Sciences: "Everybody nowadays talks about evolution" 6
Angelique Richardson
2 Eugenics: "They should certainly be killed" 34
David Bradshaw
3 Nietzscheanism: "The Superman and the all-too-human" 56
Michael Bell
4 Anthropology: "The latest form of evening entertainment" 75
Jeremy MacClancy
5 Bergsonism: "Time out of mind" 95
Mary Ann Gillies
6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: "The rituals of destruction" 116
Stephen Frosh
7 Language: "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" 138
April McMahon
8 Technology: "Multiplied man" 158
Tim Armstrong
9 The Concept of the State 1880-1939: "The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well" 179
Sarah Wilkinson
10 Physics: "A strange footprint" 200
Michael H. Whitworth
11 Modernist Publishing: "Nomads and mapmakers" 221
Peter D. McDonald
12 Reading: "'Mind hungers' common and uncommon" 243
Todd Avery and Patrick Brantlinger
Select Bibliography 262
Index 266

Über Autor(innen)

David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, University of Oxford. Among other volumes, he has edited Brave New World (1994), The Hidden Huxley (1994), Women in Love (1998), Mrs Dalloway (2000), Decline and Fall (2001), and The Good Soldier (2002). He has also published extensively on Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and various aspects of literature and politics in the 1930s. He is an Editor of the Review of English Studies and a Fellow of the English Association.