Modernist Nowheres Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920

by Waddell, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780230278998
• ISBN10: 023027899X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.

Author Biography

Nathan Waddell is the author of Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction (2009); co-editor of Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (2011); and the author of articles and chapters on literary modernist coteries and communities, Buchan, Lewis, Ford, and Lewis and Evelyn Waugh.

Table of Contents

"In this irreplaceable contribution to the growing corpus of scholarship on literary utopias, Nathan Waddell shows how some of the great experiments of early modernism emerge from a tension between powerful impulses toward social transformation and equally powerful doubts that utopian hopes should be encouraged. Waddell treats a satisfyingly wide range of writers without sacrificing historical or conceptual coherence; Modernist Nowheres is an admirably insightful, deeply honest inquiry from start to finish." - Professor Douglas Mao, Department Chair, Department of English, John Hopkins University