Literary and cultural alternatives to modernism : unsettling presences / edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, and Mark Sandy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyiopoulos, Kostas, editor.

Patterson, Anthony (College teacher of English literature), editor.

Sandy, Mark, 1970- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 57.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Great Britain.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and fractured by voices operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates. These concerns are reflected by those figures addressed by our contributors' chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M.R. James, C.L.R James, Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : alternatives to modernism : dissonant voices and multiple modernities 1890-1939 / Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, Mark Sandy

Rhetoric and feeling in Rupert Brooke / Andrew Hodgson

Strange truths : romantic re-imaginings in Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon / Mark Sandy

"Now I climb alone" : poetic subjectivity in Thomas Hardy to Stephen Spender / Michael O'Neill

Pamela Colman Smith, Anansi and the child : from The green sheaf (1903) to The anti-suffrage alphabet (1912) / Katharine Cockin

Maverick modernists : sapphic trajectories from Vernon Lee to D.H. Lawrence / Sondeep Kandola

"Modernistic shone the lamplight" : Arthur Symons among the moderns / Kostas Boyiopoulos

Richard Le Gallienne : a jongleur strayed into the modern world / Margaret Stetz

"If I'm not very careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" : the preordained role of the reader in M.R. James's Ghost stories / Luke Seaber

A large mouth shown to a dentist : G.K. Chesterton's surgical parodying of T.S. Eliot / Michael Shallcross

Modernist or realist? : the double vision of E.M. Forster / Kate Symondson

The amateur modernist : C.L.R. James in Bloomsbury / Saikat Majumdar

The iconoclasm of H.G. Wells and the modernist canon / Carey Snyder

Writing for a new age : Arnold Bennett and the avant-garde / Anthony Patterson

Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end and the tropes of nineteenth-century literary Toryism / Koenraad Claes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Literary and cultural alternatives to modernism

ISBN:

9781138710214

1138710210

OCLC:

1086524516