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A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years.

• A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture
• Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked
• The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s

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A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England from the 1890s to the Second World War. From the New Woman writers and Ford Madox Ford’s The English Review to seminal works such as BLAST, Ulysses and The Waste Land, it focuses on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of this transatlantic phenomenon. In addition to the contribution  individual writers made to modernism, the book also explores the intellectual debates, networks and communities that facilitated the creation of key literary works.

The book is chronologically organized, spanning early modernism, the period 1910-1914, modernism during wartime, the years 1918-1930, and modernism in the 1930s, and it concludes with a brief exploration of modernism’s afterlives in the post-1945 period. At once a comprehensive survey, and a detailed critical account of modernism as it developed and changed over this forty-year span, A History of Modernist Literature is essential reading for anyone in the fields of modernism and early twentieth-century English literature.

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Preface ix
 
Abbreviations xiv
 
Introduction: Locating Modernism 1
 
1 Early Modernism 44
 
The New Woman 44
 
Literary Impressionism 54
 
Debating Imperialism 70
 
Early Modernist Drama 91
 
Edward Gordon Craig and W. B. Yeats 100
 
The Modern Metropolis 107
 
Ford Madox Ford and The English Review 118
 
2 ‘One Big Bloodless Brawl’: Modernist Literature, 1910–1914 136
 
Introduction 136
 
Exploring the Machine Age 141
 
Poetry and the Renovation of Language 157
 
Imagism 166
 
Ford, Flint, and Eliot 176
 
Dubliners 184
 
Suffragettes, Feminists, and Egoists 189
 
Blast and Vorticism 203
 
3 Modernism During Wartime 231
 
Introduction 231
 
Pacifism, Nationalism, and Community 234
 
Propaganda and Ideology 250
 
The Good Soldier 271
 
Portraits of the Male Artist 278
 
The Politics of Gender 292
 
4 ‘ A Haughty and Proud Generation’: Modernist Literature, 1918–1930 332
 
Introduction 332
 
The Backwashes of War 342
 
Ulysses 363
 
The Waste Land 381
 
Remaking the Novel 395
 
A Future for the Avanti¿½]Garde? 412
 
5 Modernism in the 1930s 432
 
Introduction 432
 
Modernity and Its Discontents 444
 
The Situation of Poetry 469
 
Modernism, Race, and Colonialism 479
 
The Festival Theatre and Group Theatre 492
 
Surrealism 504
 
Pound/Joyce 522
 
6 Coda: Modernism’s Afterlives 554
 
Index 570

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