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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270281429 A Companion to Modernist Literature & Culture Book · January 2006 CITATIONS READS 0 18,693 1 author: Samantha Lavoine Kenyatta University 3 PUBLICATIONS 1 CITATION SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Samantha Lavoine on 02 January 2015. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. A C O M P A N I O N T O M ODERNIST L ITERATURE AND C ULTURE EDITED BY DAVID BRADSHAW AND KEVIN J. H. DETTMAR ACTMA01 3 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture ACTMA01 1 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post- canonical texts, orienting the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. 1. A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu 2. A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker 3. A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan 4. A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter 5. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan 6. A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown 7. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley 8. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway 9. A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns 10. A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts 11. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne 12. A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen 13. A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco 14. A Companion to Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur F. Kinney 15. A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony H. Harrison 16. A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing 17–20. A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works: Volumes I–IV Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard 21. A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America Edited by Charles L. Crow 22. A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism Edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted 23. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South Edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson 24. A Companion to American Fiction 1780–1865 Edited by Shirley Samuels 25. A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914 Edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson 26. A Companion to Digital Humanities Edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth 27. A Companion to Romance Edited by Corinne Saunders 28. A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000 Edited by Brian W. Shaffer 29. A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama Edited by David Krasner 30. A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture Edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia 31. A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture Edited by Rory McTurk 32. A Companion to Tragedy Edited by Rebecca Bushnell 33. A Companion to Narrative Theory Edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz 34. A Companion to Science Fiction Edited by David Seed 35. A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America Edited by Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer 36. A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance Edited by Barbara Hodgdon and W. B. Worthen 37. A Companion to Mark Twain Edited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd 38. A Companion to European Romanticism Edited by Michael K. Ferber 39. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture Edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar ACTMA01 2 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM A C O M P A N I O N T O M ODERNIST L ITERATURE AND C ULTURE EDITED BY DAVID BRADSHAW AND KEVIN J. H. DETTMAR ACTMA01 3 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization © 2006 by David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar to be identified as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1 2006 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to modernist literature and culture / edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. p. cm.—(Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 39) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-631-20435-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-631-20435-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. English literature—20th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Modernism (Literature)—English-speaking countries—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. American literature—20th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Bradshaw, David, 1955– . II. Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 1958– . III. Series. PR478.M6C65 2005 820.9′112–dc22 2005019721 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 11/13pt Garamond 3 by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall The publisher’s policy is to use permanent paper from mills that operate a sustainable forestry policy, and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid-free and elementary chlorine-free practices. Furthermore, the publisher ensures that the text paper and cover board used have met acceptable environmental accreditation standards. For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishing.com ACTMA01 4 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM Contents Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Kevin J. H. Dettmar PART I Origins, Beginnings, and the New 7 1 Philosophy 9 Jean-Michel Rabaté 2 Religion 19 Pericles Lewis 3 Politics 29 Tyrus Miller 4 The Physical Sciences 39 Michael H. Whitworth 5 The Biological Sciences 50 Angelique Richardson 6 Technology 66 Sara Danius 7 Psychology 79 Perry Meisel ACTMA01 5 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM vi Contents 8 Anthropology 92 Patricia Rae 9 Obscenity and Censorship 103 David Bradshaw 10 Language 113 R. M. Berry 11 Geography 123 Nico Israel 12 Publishing 133 Mark S. Morrisson 13 Sex and Sexuality 143 Liesl Olson PART II Movements 153 14 Literary Symbolism 155 Marshall C. Olds 15 Dada 163 Robert Short 16 Futurism 169 Tyrus Miller 17 Vorticism 176 Alan Munton 18 Imagism 183 Patrick McGuinness 19 Surrealism 189 Mary Ann Caws 20 Expressionism 198 Richard Murphy ACTMA01 6 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM Contents vii 21 Literary Impressionism 204 Max Saunders PART III Modernist Genres and Modern Media 213 22 The Novel 215 Jesse Matz 23 Poetry 227 Adam Parkes 24 Drama 237 Stephen Watt 25 The Visual Arts 244 Richard Weston 26 Film 250 Laura Marcus 27 Music 258 Bernard Gendron 28 Dance 265 Susan Jones 29 Architecture 272 Lee Morrissey 30 Photography 278 Maggie Humm PART IV Readings 285 31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger! 287 Steven Matthews 32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood 297 Rebecca Loncraine 33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy 306 H. Porter Abbott ACTMA01 7 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM viii Contents 34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 314 Brian W. Shaffer 35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 324 David Chinitz 36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 333 Karl F. Zender 37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 342 Ruth Prigozy 38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier 350 Sara Haslam 39 The Poetry of H. D. 358 Diana Collecott 40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew 367 Edward Brunner 41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God 376 Cheryl A. Wall 42 James Joyce: Ulysses 384 Michael Patrick Gillespie 43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love 393 Joyce Piell Wexler 44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr 402 Andrzej Gasiorek 45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker 411 Michael Thurston 46 Marianne Moore: Observations 422 Catherine Paul 47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 431 Michael Coyle ACTMA01 8 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM Contents ix 48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage 440 Laura Marcus 49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives 450 Jaime Hovey 50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 459 Jonathan Levin 51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts 469 Jay Martin 52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson 478 Daniel Morris 53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 486 Pamela L. Caughie 54 Richard Wright: Native Son 499 Bill V. Mullen 55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) 507 Edward Larrissy 56 Modernist Critical Prose 516 Gary S. Wihl PART V Other Modernisms 525 57 Modernism and Race 527 Martha Jane Nadell 58 Modernism and Gender 535 Bonnie Kime Scott 59 Modernism Queered 542 Laura Doan and Jane Garrity 60 Postcolonial Modernism 551 Bart Moore-Gilbert 61 Global Modernisms 558 Melba Cuddy-Keane ACTMA01 9 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM x Contents 62 Postmodernism 565 Bran Nicol Epilogue: Modernism Now 571 Marjorie Perloff Index 579 ACTMA01 10 05/12/2005, 09:40 AM Notes on Contributors H.