Modernism, 1910-1945

This essential guide explores and celebrates the rise and development of modernist and avant-garde literatures and theories in the period 1910-1945, from Imagism to the Apocalypse movement. Jane Goldman charts transitions in writing, reading, performing and publishing practices, and in international groupings and regroupings of writers and artists, and interrogates the term 'Modernism' which labels the era. Goldman introduces students to the work of many canonical high modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and samples the work of other important modernist figures, including Nathanael West, John Rodker, Aldous Huxley and the Harlem Renaissance poets.

General Editor's Preface.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Making it New.- PART I: 1910 IMAGE, ORDER, WAR.- Literature after 1910: Formalism, the Visual Arts, and Cultural Change.- Tradition, Order, War and the Dead: Critical and Cultural Contexts for T. S. Eliot's 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'.- The Egoist, War, Hell, and Image: T. S. Eliot, Dora Marsden, John Rodker, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington et al..- 'Tradition' and 'Mrs Brown': T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.- PART II: IMAGE, GENDER, APOCALYPSE.- Rude Mouths: Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright et al.- Gender Wars in Hell: James Joyce, Kurt Schwitters, Gerturde Stein and Virginia Woolf.- Order, Night, Rage: Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Eugene Jolas, James Joyce, W. H. Auden, Nathaniel West et al.- Apocalypse, Auschwitz, the Bomb, and After: Virginia Woolf, David Gascoyne, Paul Celan, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Schwitters et al.- Appendix 1: Chronology.- Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography.- Bibliography.- Index.