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Author:   Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham) ,  Andrzej Gasiorek (University of Birmingham) ,  Deborah Longworth (University of Birmingham) ,  Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 6.10cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.904kg
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9780199545445

ISBN 10:   0199545448
Pages:   1202
Publication Date:   16 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction Frameworks 1: Morag Shiach: Periodizing modernism 2: Sascha Bru: Modernism before and after theory 3: Finn Fordham: The modernist archive Practices and perspectives 4: Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery: Innovations in poetry 5: David James: Modernist narratives: revisions and re-readings 6: Michael Wood: The modernist novel in Europe 7: Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr: Staging modernism: a new drama 8: Michael Valdez Moses: Modernists as critics 9: Deborah Longworth: Gendering the modernist text 10: Andrzej Gasiorek: Class Positions 11: Robert L. Caserio: Queer modernism 12: Joanne Winning: Lesbian sexuality in the story of modernism 13: Jonathan W. Gray: Harlem modernisms 14: Laura Doyle: Colonial encounters 15: Tim Youngs: Travelling modernists Contexts and conditions 16: Nicholas Daly: The machine age 17: John Xiros Cooper: Modernism in the age of mass culture and consumption 18: Aaron Jaffe: Publication, patronage, censorship 19: Suzanne W. Churchill and Adam McKible: Modernism in magazines 20: Michael Bell: Primitivism: modernism as anthropology 21: Daniel Moore: Questions of history 22: Peter Osborne: Modernism and philosophy 23: Matt ffytche: The modernist road to the unconscious 24: Roger Luckhurst: Religion, psychical research, spiritualism, and the occult 25: Michael Whitworth: Science in the age of modernism 26: Marina MacKay: Violence, art, and war 27: Alan Munton: Modernist politics: socialism, anarchism, fascism Image, performance, and the new media 28: James Donald: Cinema, modernism, and modernity 29: Elena Gualtieri: Photography: the age of the snapshot 30: Sarah Victoria Turner: Modernism and the visual arts 31: Ramsay Burt: Dancing bodies and modernity 32: Debra Rae Cohen: Modernism on radio 33: Simon Shaw-Miller: Modernist music 34: Christopher Crouch: Architecture, design, and modern living Metropolitan movements 35: Scott McCracken: Imagining the modernist city 1870-1945 36: Andrew Hussey: Paris: symbolism, impressionism, cubism, surrealism 37: Richard J. Murphy: Berlin: dada, expressionism, Neue Sachlichkeit 38: Andrew Thacker: London: rhymers, imagists, and vorticists 39: John J. White: Futurism in Europe 40: Martin Halliwell: The modernist Atlantic: New York, Chicago, and Europe 41: Nathan Waddell: Modernist coteries and communities National and transnational modernisms 42: Margery Palmer McCulloch: Scottish modernism 43: Carol Taaffe: Irish modernism 44: Daniel G. Williams: Welsh modernism 45: Timothy O. Benson: Central Europe 46: Emily Finer: Russian Modernism 47: Anker Gemzøe: Nordic modernisms 48: Dean Irvine: Modernisms in English Canada 49: Donald L. Shaw: Hispanic literature and the problem of modernism 50: Dave Gunning: Caribbean modernism 51: Tim Woods: Modernism and African literature 52: Supriya Chaudhuri: Modernisms in India 53: Prudence Black and Stephen Muecke: Antipodean modernisms: Australia and New Zealand 54: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Yi Zheng: Chinese modernisms: politics, poetry, and cultural dissonance 55: Vera Christine Mackie: Modernism and colonial modernity in early twentieth-century Japan Afterword: 'newness' in modernism, early and latePeter Brooker: Bibliography Index

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Peter Brooker is Research Professor at the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex. He has written widely on contemporary writing, film, and cultural theory and is author of Bertolt Brecht, Poetry, Dialectics, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2002) and Bohemia in London (2004, 2007) and co-editor of Geographies of Modernism (2005) and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volumes 1-3. Andrzej Gasiorek is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has written widely on modernism and on post-war British fiction. He is a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures and author of Post War British Fiction: Realism and After (1995), Wyndham Lewis and Modernism (2004) and J.G. Ballard (2005). Deborah Longworth is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Streetwalking the Metropolis (2000), Djuna Barnes (2003), and Three Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf (2006), and a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures. Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at De Montfort University. He is the author of Moving Through Modernity (2003), the editor of Dubliners Casebook (2006), and co-editor of The Impact of Michel Foucault (1997), Geographies of Modernism (2005), and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, volumes 1-3. He is an editor of the journal Literature & History and director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University.

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