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Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences book cover

1st Edition

Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism Unsettling Presences

Edited By Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, Mark Sandy Copyright 2019
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Alternatives to Modernism: Dissonant Voices and Multiple Modernities 1890-1939

Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, Mark Sandy

PART 1

Unsettled Voices: Imaginative and Cultural Encounters

  1. Rhetoric and Feeling in Rupert Brooke

    2. Andrew Hodgson

  2. Strange Truths: Romantic Reimaginings in Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

    3. Mark Sandy

  3. ‘Now I Climb Alone’: Poetic Subjectivity in Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Stephen Spender

    4. Michael O’Neill

    PART 2

    Dissenting Voices: Aestheticism, Gender, and the Art of Identity

  4. Pamela Colman Smith, Anansi and the Child: From The Green Sheaf (1903) to The Anti-Suffrage Alphabet (1912)

    5. Katharine Cockin

  5. Maverick Modernists: Sapphic Trajectories from Vernon Lee to D. H. Lawrence

    6. Sondeep Kandola

  6. ‘Modernistic Shone the Lamplight’: Arthur Symons among the Moderns

    7. Kostas Boyiopoulos

  7. Richard Le Gallienne: A Jongleur Strayed into the Modern World

    8. Margaret D. Stetz

    PART 3

    Double Voices: Central and Peripheral Transactions

  8. ‘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

    9. Luke Seaber

  9. A Large Mouth Shown to a Dentist: G. K. Chesterton’s Surgical Parodying of T. S. Eliot

    10. Michael Shallcross

  10. Modernist or Realist?: The Double Vision of E. M. Forster

    11. Kate Symondson

  11. The Amateur Modernist: C. L. R. James in Bloomsbury

    12. Saikat Majumdar

    PART 4

    Popular Voices: Questions of Realism, Politics, and Modernity

  12. The Iconoclasm of H. G. Wells and the Modernist Canon

    13. Carey Snyder

  13. Writing for a New Age: Arnold Bennett and the Avant-Garde

    14. Anthony Patterson

  14. Parade’s End and the Modernist Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Literary Toryism

          Koenraad Claes

Biography

Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies at Durham University



Anthony Patterson is Assistant Professor of English at Celal Bayar University in Manisa, Turkey.

Mark Sandy is Reader in English and Deputy Head of the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

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