Beyond Modernism : Noncanonicity and Early-Twentieth-Century British Literature.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frayn, Andrew, editor.

Jones, Katie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canon (Literature).

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

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Focusing on noncanonical writers writing at the high point of British modernism, this book deliberately looks away from the British modernist canon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, underlining the problematic nature of discussions about literary merit.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Beyond modernism

Why noncanonical, and what is it?

Canonicity and/as modernist praxis

Broadening the canon

Modernist canonicity and noncanonicity

Shaping contemporary modernisms

The structure of the book

Section 1 : Genre

Chapter 1 Serious rivals: Popular physics writing as noncanonical literature

Contexts for canonization

Claiming a place for science in the literary canon

Denying a place for science in the literary canon

Barriers to canonization in theory and practice

Conclusion

Chapter 2 'I hate practical Englishmen': Hugh Walpole's The Dark Forest (1916), Anglo-Russian encounter and the modern-period canon

The Eastern Front and modern memory

Identities in The Secret City

Chapter 3 'Salute John Citizen': Forgetting and remembering Robert Greenwood's people's war novels (1940-9)

Re-introducing Robert Greenwood and his novels

Mr Bunting's international fame and film success

Citizen heroism: The Bunting trilogy and The Squad Goes Out

The reception of the Buntings

John Citizen and Mrs Miniver

Conclusion: The aesthetics of canonical remembering and forgetting

Chapter 4 The anxious modern woman: Elizabeth Taylor's early fiction

Modernism and reading Elizabeth Taylor

Taylor's anxiety of intimacy

Section 2 : Form

Chapter 5 'Civilisation is on the edge of a precipice' * : Interdisciplinarity and next-war fiction in Princess Paul Troubetzkoy and C. R. W. Nevinson's Exodus A.D. (1934)

Paratext, peritext and epitext

Reading Exodus A.D.

Constructing literary authority

Women and noncanonicity

Chapter 6 'A fugal siege': Sacheverell Sitwell's Canons of Giant Art (1933).

Introduction: Sacheverell Sitwell's baroque fantasia

El Greco as fugue: Canons of Giant Art

Clash of visible and invisible: Sitwell's phenomenology

Baroque metatext and pentimento: 'St. Maurice and the Theban Legion'

Baroque Ekphrasis: Spirit and configuration of the artwork

Legacy and ekphrasis: The ambivalence of Laocoon

'The Laocoon of El Greco': Where the invisible makes suffering visible

Chapter 7 Jessica Dismorr: Vorticism's forgotten voice

Women on the verge

Poetry in the machine age

A machine that mints expressions and the avant-garde's antagonistic aesthetics

'I call the universe to order': Dismorr's literary vortex

Chapter 8 '[A]‌ writer of murk': Reading Oswell Blakeston's obscurity

Section 3 : Gender

Chapter 9 Postcolonial interactions with British noncanonicity: Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 'Sultana's Dream' (1905) and 'Padmarag' (1924) as feminist utopias

Introduction: The significance of noncanonicity

'Sultana's Dream' and 'Padmarag': The earliest Indian feminist utopian resistance to patriarchy

'Sultana's Dream': Feminist utopia installing women's agency

'Padmarag': Feminist's utopia advancing women's education

Conclusion: The timelessness of Hossain's noncanonical utopias

Chapter 10 Forced independence: The complicated, noncanonical feminism of Violet Hunt

Chapter 11 Mourning the canon: Exclusivity, exclusion and Dorothy Edwards's short stories

Introduction

Edwards as outsider

Mourning the canon

Art, femininity and enclosure

(Un)conquered: Resistance to projective mourning

Open-endings

Chapter 12 'Being at Home in the World': Stella Benson's Goodbye, Stranger (1926)

Subverting the canon

The genesis of Goodbye, Stranger

A search for wisdom

A search for home

A search for love

'Being at Home in the World'.

Chapter 13 Minding the gaps: Non canonicity and the cases of Rachel Annand Taylor and Rachel Cusk

Death of the woman writer?

Art monsters and the second sex in Rachel Cusk's Second Place

Conclusion: Noncanonical Futures...

Andrew Frayn and Katie Jones

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Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Frayn, Andrew Beyond Modernism

ISBN:

9781350536449

OCLC:

1592688602