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The Modernism Handbook
Literature and Culture Handbooks

General Editors: Philip Tew and Steven Barfield

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major

periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture.
Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature
students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance
needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced
knowledge and skills.

The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook

Edited by Gary Day and Bridge Keegan

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Edited by Daniel T. Kline

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Edited by Katharine Cockin and Jago Morrison

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Edited by Susan Bruce and Rebecca Steinberger

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Edited by Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling

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Edited by Andrew Hiscock and Stephen Longstaffe

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Edited by Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis
The Modernism
Handbook

Edited by
Philip Tew
and
Alex Murray
Continuum
The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704
11 York Road New York
London SE1 7NX NY 10038

www.continuumbooks.com

© Philip Tew, Alex Murray and contributors 2009

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted

in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior
permission in writing from the publishers.

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978-0-8264-8842-8 (Hardback)

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Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents

Detailed Table of Contents vii

Acknowledgements xiii
List of Illustrations xv
General Editors’ Introduction xvii

1 Introduction: Beginning with Modernism 1

Philip Tew and Alex Murray
2 Timeline 1890–1941 16
Nicola Allen
3 Historical Context of Modernist Literature 26
Leigh Wilson
4 Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions,
Topics, Events 43
Emmett Stinson
5 Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts 66
Jeannette Baxter
6 Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts 90
Bryony Randall
7 Key Critical Concepts and Topics (Including a survey of
major critical figures) 112
David Ian Paddy
8 Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches 135
Gary Day
9 Changes in the Canon 158
Alex Murray
10 Gender and Modernism 170
Deborah Parsons

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11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape 186

Andrew Thacker

Glossary 199
Philip Tew
Appendix: Teaching, Learning and the Curricula of Modernism 215
Steven Barfield
(Available at www.continuumbooks.com/resources/9780826488435)
Notes on Contributors 217
Notes 219
Annotated Bibliography 221
Useful Websites 239
Index 243

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Detailed Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xiii
List of Illustrations xv
General Editors’ Introduction xvii

1 Introduction: Beginning with Modernism 1

Philip Tew and Alex Murray
All Change 4
Technology, Transport, Communication 4
The First World War 7
Modernity and Modernism 11

2 Timeline 1890–1941 16
Nicola Allen

3 Historical Context of Modernist Literature 26

Leigh Wilson
The First World War and Its Aftermath 26
Politics and Economics 28
The Position of the ‘Other’ 31
Culture 35
Science and Technology 38

4 Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures,

Institutions, Topics, Events 43
Emmett Stinson
Figures 44
Wystan Hugh (‘W.H.’) Auden (1907–1973) 44
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) 45
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) 45
Thomas Stearns (‘T.S.’) Eliot (1888–1965) 46
William Faulkner (1897–1952) 47

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Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) 48

James Joyce (1882–1941) 49
David Herbert Richards (‘D.H.’) Lawrence (1885–1930) 50
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) 50
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) 51
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 52
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) 53
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) 54
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) 55
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) 55
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) 56
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) 57
Genres, Movements and Contexts 58
Bloomsbury Group 58
Cubism 59
Dada 60
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity 60
Futurism 61
Imagism 61
Manifestoes 62
Modernist Journals 62
Omega Workshops 63
Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1910 63
Suffragettes 64
Surrealism 64
Vorticism 65

5 Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts 66

Jeannette Baxter
Who’s Afraid of Reading Modernism? 66
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) 68
Allusive Histories in ‘The Burial of the Dead’ 69
W.B. Yeats, ‘Easter 1916’ (1921) 73
‘A Terrible Beauty is Born’: The Violence of Sacrifice 74
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, (1899/1902) 77
‘The Horror, the Horror’: Ambivalence in Heart of Darkness 78
May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) 81
‘Pussycat, Pussycat’: Repetition and Repression 82
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925) 85
‘What a lark! What a plunge!’: Mrs Dalloway’s London 86

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6 Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and

Critical Texts 90
Bryony Randall
Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995) 91
Marianne DeKoven, Rich and Strange: Gender, History,
Modernism (1991) 95
Houston A. Baker, Jr, Modernism and the Harlem
Renaissance (1987) 101
Lawrence Rainey, Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and
Public Cultures (1998) 106

7 Key Critical Concepts and Topics (Including

a survey of major critical figures) 112
David Ian Paddy
Introduction 113
Critical Concepts 113
The City 113
Cultural Sterility and Renewal 115
Empire and Crisis 117
Gender and Identity 119
Modernism and Form 121
Sexuality 123
Time and Flux 124
Critical Figures 126
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) 126
Clive Bell (1881–1964) 126
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) 127
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) 128
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) 128
Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) 129
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) 129
William James (1842–1910) 130
Adolf Loos (1870–1933) 130
Karl Marx (1818–1883) 131
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) 132
Max Nordau (1849–1923) 133
Georg Simmel (1858–1918) 133
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) 134

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8 Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches 135

Gary Day
An Old and New Approach 136
The City and Human Character 139
Modernists on Art 141
Romantics and Classicists 144
Futurism and Dada 146
The View from Bloomsbury 148
Marxists on Modernism 149
Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Approaches
to Modernism 152

9 Changes in the Canon 158

Alex Murray
Creating a Canon 159
Literary Theory 160
Class, Cultural Economy and Modernist Elites 161
Gender and Sexuality 163
Postcolonialism 165
Temporal Co-ordinates 167
Conclusion 169

10 Gender and Modernism 170

Deborah Parsons

11 Mapping the Current Critical Landscape 186

Andrew Thacker
Locating the Field 186
Key Critical Works 189
Current and Future Trends 193

Glossary 199
Philip Tew
Avant-garde 200
Carnivalesque 200
Dada or Dadaism 201
Deconstruction 201
Defamiliarization 201
The Enlightenment 202
Epiphany 202
Epistemology 203

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Feminism 203
Feminist Criticism 204
Fin de siècle 204
Free Indirect Discourse 204
Genre 205
Historiographic Metafiction 205
Historiography 205
Hybridity 206
Intertextuality 206
Irony 207
Marxism/Marxist 207
Modernism 208
Myth 208
Metafiction 209
Metaphysics 209
Modernity 210
Parody 210
Picaresque Novel 210
Postcolonial Criticism 211
Postmodernism 211
Poststructuralism 212
Provincial (and Regional) Novel 212
Realism 212
Satire 213
Stream of Consciousness 213
Surrealism 213
Taylorism 214
The Uncanny 214

Appendix: Teaching, Learning and the Curricula of Modernism 215

Steven Barfield
(Available at www.continuumbooks.com/resources/9780826488435)

Notes on Contributors 217

Notes 219
Annotated Bibliography 221
Useful Websites 239
Index 243

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements are due to all the staff at Continuum in the London

offices, in particular Anna Fleming (formerly Sandeman) and Colleen Coalter
for efforts over and above what might be expected. Thanks also to: all of the
contributors; the librarians in Humanities Two at the British Library; the
organizers of the J.G. Ballard conference at UEA which proved to be such
an important meeting point; librarians and colleagues at Brunel and Exeter
Universities; and, Steve Barfield for his energy, enthusiasm, and good
company.

Thanks are also due to A. P. Watt Ltd for kindly granting permission to
reproduce The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats on behalf of Gráinne Yeats.

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List of Illustrations

1 The Hampstead home of Sigmund Freud. © Philip Tew 2008 7

2 A contemporary view of Woburn Walk (previously Woburn
Buildings). © Philip Tew 2008 10
3 Plaque commemorating the London home of W.B. Yeats in
rooms in Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury. © Philip Tew 2008 53
4 51, Gordon Square, the home from 1919 of Lytton Strachey,
author of Eminent Victorians. © Philip Tew 2008 57
5 Plaque marking the entrance in Thornhaugh Street to the
offices of Faber and Faber and commemorating T.S. Eliot.
© Philip Tew 2008 73
6 The Isokon building in Lawn Road, Belsize Park, London
NW3. © Philip Tew 2008 131

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General Editors’ Introduction

The Continuum Literature and Culture Handbooks series aims to support both
students new to an area of study and those at a more advanced stage, offering
guidance with regard to the major periods, topics and authors relevant to the
study of various aspects of British and American literature and culture. The
series is designed with an international audience in mind, based on research
into today’s students in a global educational setting. Each volume is concerned
with either a particular historical phase or an even more specific context such
as a major author study. All of the chosen areas represent established subject
matter for literary study in schools, colleges and universities, all are both
widely taught and the subject of ongoing research and scholarship. Each
handbook provides a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature stu-
dents, offering essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of
a course through to more advanced knowledge and skills for the student
more familiar with the particular topic. These volumes reflect current aca-
demic research and scholarship, teaching methods and strategies and also
provide an outline of essential historical contexts. Written in clear language by
leading internationally acknowledged academics, each book provides the
following:

• Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts.

• Guides to key critics, concepts and topics.
• Introduction to critical approaches, changes in the canon and new
conceptual and theoretical issues such as gender and ethnicity.
• Case studies in reading literary and theoretical and critical texts.
• Annotated bibliography (including selected websites), timeline and a
glossary of useful critical terms.

This student-friendly series as a whole has drawn its inspiration and structure
largely from the latest principles of text book design employed in other dis-
ciplines and subjects, creating an unusual and distinctive approach for the

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undergraduate arts and humanities field. This structure is designed to be

user-friendly and it is intended that the layout can be easily navigated, with
various points of cross-reference. Such clarity and straightforward approach
should help students understand the material and in doing so guide them
through the increasing academic difficulty of complex critical and theoretical
approaches to Literary Studies. These handbooks serve as gateways to the
particular field that is explored.
All volumes make use of a ‘progressive learning strategy’, rather than the
traditional chronological approach to the subject under discussion so that
they might relate more closely to the learning process of the student. This
means that the particular volume offers material that will aid the student to
approach the period or topic confidently in the classroom for the very first
time (for example glossaries, historical context, key topics and critics), as well
as material that helps the student develop more advanced skills (learning
how to respond actively to selected primary texts and analyse and engage
with modern critical arguments in relation to such texts). Each volume
includes a specially commissioned new critical essay by a leading authority in
the field discussing current debates and contexts. The progression in the con-
tents mirrors the progress of the undergraduate student from beginner to a
more advanced level. Each volume is aimed primarily at undergraduate stu-
dents, intending to offer itself as both a guide and a reference text that will
reflect the advances in academic studies in its subject matter, useful to both
students and staff (the latter may find the appendix on pedagogy particularly
helpful).
We realize that students in the twenty-first century are faced with numer-
ous challenges and demands; it is our intention that the Handbook series
should empower its readers to become effective and efficient in their studies.

Philip Tew and Steven Barfield

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1 Introduction: Beginning
with Modernism
Philip Tew and Alex Murray

Chapter Overview

All Change 4
Technology, Transport, Communication 4
The First World War 7
Modernity and Modernism 11

With the plethora of existing handbooks and guides, it is worth considering

the question of ‘why another handbook on modernism?’ First, this volume
represents not just ‘another’ introductory guide but instead a new style of
handbook for a new generation in the new academic environment. Gone are
the days when students were simply required to know only a very few critical
terms and some general background information when they turned to pri-
mary texts and spontaneously produced a competent close-reading. More and
more the undergraduate, as well as the non-specialist graduate and academic,
are expected to have a complex understanding of the field of ‘modernist stud-
ies’ with a sense of the relevant critical and intellectual debates. Where once
the density of Joyce’s Ulysses was the most intimidating prospect in under-
taking a course on Modernism, these days it is arguably more difficult to
situate and understand the complexities of a field of study that has changed
and developed dramatically over the past 30 years. Even the nature and
make-up of the primary texts generally studied have been revised radically,
although there are a few that remain as recognizable cornerstones of the field.
It is in the context of such demands that this handbook seeks to provide an
introduction to studying Modernism at university level. Instead of simply
proceeding through thematic issues or central figures as a whole it is designed
to help those beginning their study of Modernism. This book also provides a

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