The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms

by Brooker, Peter; Gasiorek, Andrzej; Longworth, Deborah; Thacker, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780198778448
• ISBN10: 0198778449
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-10-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms situates literary modernisms and the modernist arts in a series of unfolding relations with mass society and popular culture in both national and transnational settings. An unparalleled resource containing over fifty specially commissioned essays, the Handbook updates and extends the scope and depth of previous synoptic guides, bringing together new approaches to the more obvious themes of modernist studies as well as new research on the variety of cultural, aesthetic, and geographical factors that were intrinsic to the creation of modernism. The contributors draw upon a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and new methodologies in order to take account of the development of revisionist modernist studies over the past three decades. Two particularly innovative features of the Handbook are its focus upon the cross media and international character of modernism. A number of the essays examine visual culture and other media in order to delineate the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural formations linking the innovations and experiments of literary modernism with work in other arts and media. Others seek to analyze how Anglo-American and European models were inflected in a different temporal frame and in quite distinct geographical contexts. The Handbook is divided into six sections in order to reflect changed critical perspectives upon modernism's formal innovation and experiment, to foreground the relation of literature and the other arts, and to understand these in appropriate intellectual, social, and geocultural settings. The received canon is therefore revisited and "made new" as the varying aspects of metropolitan, regional, national, and transnational modernisms come into view.

Author Biography

Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture, Film, and Media at the University of Nottingham and was previously Research Professor at the Center for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex. He has written widely on contemporary writing, film, and cultural theory and is author of Bertolt Brecht, Poetry, Dialectics, Politics, New York Fictions, Modernity and Metropolis, and Bohemia in London, and co-editor of Geographies of Modernism and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volumes 1-3.

Andrzej Gasiorek is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on modernism and on post-war British fiction. He is a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures and author of Post War British Fiction: Realism and After, Wyndham Lewis and Modernism, and J.G. Ballard.

Deborah Longworth is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Streetwalking the Metropolis, Djuna Barnes, and Three Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, and a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures.

Andrew Thacker is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University and previously taught at De Montfort University. He is the author of Moving Through Modernity, the editor of Dubliners Casebook, and co-editor of The Impact of Michel Foucault, Geographies of Modernism, and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volumes 1-3. He is an editor of the journal Literature & History and director of the Center for Textual Studies at De Montfort University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Introduction
Frameworks
1. Periodizing modernism, Morag Shiach
2. Modernism before and after theory, Sascha Bru
3. The modernist archive, Finn Fordham
Practices and perspectives
4. Innovations in poetry, Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery
5. Modernist narratives: revisions and re-readings, David James
6. The modernist novel in Europe, Michael Wood
7. Staging modernism: a new drama, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
8. Modernists as critics, Michael Valdez Moses
9. Gendering the modernist text, Deborah Longworth
10. Class Positions, Andrzej Gasiorek
11. Queer modernism, Robert L. Caserio
12. Lesbian sexuality in the story of modernism, Joanne Winning
13. Harlem modernisms, Jonathan W. Gray
14. Colonial encounters, Laura Doyle
15. Travelling modernists, Tim Youngs
Contexts and conditions
16. The machine age, Nicholas Daly
17. Modernism in the age of mass culture and consumption, John Xiros Cooper
18. Publication, patronage, censorship, Aaron Jaffe
19. Modernism in magazines, Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible
20. Primitivism: modernism as anthropology, Michael Bell
21. Questions of history, Daniel Moore
22. Modernism and philosophy, Peter Osborne
23. The modernist road to the unconscious, Matt ffytche
24. Religion, psychical research, spiritualism, and the occult, Roger Luckhurst
25. Science in the age of modernism, Michael Whitworth
26. Violence, art, and war, Marina MacKay
27. Modernist politics: socialism, anarchism, fascism, Alan Munton
Image, performance, and the new media
28. Cinema, modernism, and modernity, James Donald
29. Photography: the age of the snapshot, Elena Gualtieri
30. Modernism and the visual arts, Sarah Victoria Turner
31. Dancing bodies and modernity, Ramsay Burt
32. Modernism on radio, Debra Rae Cohen
33. Modernist music, Simon Shaw-Miller
34. Architecture, design, and modern living, Christopher Crouch
Metropolitan movements
35. Imagining the modernist city 1870-1945, Scott McCracken
36. Paris: symbolism, impressionism, cubism, surrealism, Andrew Hussey
37. Berlin: dada, expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Richard J. Murphy
38. London: rhymers, imagists, and vorticists, Andrew Thacker
39. Futurism in Europe, John J. White
40. The modernist Atlantic: New York, Chicago, and Europe, Martin Halliwell
41. Modernist coteries and communities, Nathan Waddell
National and transnational modernisms
42. Scottish modernism, Margery Palmer McCulloch
43. Irish modernism, Carol Taaffe
44. Welsh modernism, Daniel G. Williams
45. Central Europe, Timothy O. Benson
46. Russian Modernism, Emily Finer
47. Nordic modernisms, Anker Gemzoe
48. Modernisms in English Canada, Dean Irvine
49. Hispanic literature and the problem of modernism, Donald L. Shaw
50. Caribbean modernism, Dave Gunning
51. Modernism and African literature, Tim Woods
52. Modernisms in India, Supriya Chaudhuri
53. Antipodean modernisms: Australia and New Zealand, Prudence Black and Stephen Muecke
54. Chinese modernisms: politics, poetry, and cultural dissonance, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Yi Zheng
55. Modernism and colonial modernity in early twentieth-century Japan, Vera Christine Mackie
Afterword: Peter Brooker: 'newness' in modernism, early and late
Bibliography
Index