A Concise Companion to Modernism

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David Bradshaw
John Wiley & Sons, 15.04.2008 - 308 Seiten

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.

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Introduction
1
1 The Life SciencesEverybody nowadays talks about evolution
6
2 EugenicsThey should certainly be killed
34
3 NietzscheanismThe Superman and the alltoohuman
56
4 AnthropologyThe latest form of evening entertainment
75
5 BergsonismTime out of mind
95
6 Psychoanalysis in BritainThe rituals of destruction
116
7 LanguageHistory is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake
138
8 TechnologyMultiplied man
158
9 The Concept of the State 1880 1939The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well
179
10 PhysicsA strange footprint
200
11 Modernist PublishingNomads and mapmakers
221
12 ReadingMind hungers common and uncommon
243
Select Bibliography
262
Index
266
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Autoren-Profil (2008)

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.

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TitelA Concise Companion to Modernism
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
HerausgeberDavid Bradshaw
VerlagJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN1405148713, 9781405148719
Länge308 Seiten
  
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