Literary and cultural alternatives to modernism : unsettling presences / edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, and Mark Sandy.

GBP 105/-
TBH86/127

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : alternatives to modernism : dissonant voices and multiple modernities 1890-1939 / Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, Mark Sandy -- Rhetoric and feeling in Rupert Brooke / Andrew Hodgson -- Strange truths : romantic re-imaginings in Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon / Mark Sandy -- "Now I climb alone" : poetic subjectivity in Thomas Hardy to Stephen Spender / Michael O'Neill -- Pamela Colman Smith, Anansi and the child : from The green sheaf (1903) to The anti-suffrage alphabet (1912) / Katharine Cockin -- Maverick modernists : sapphic trajectories from Vernon Lee to D.H. Lawrence / Sondeep Kandola -- "Modernistic shone the lamplight" : Arthur Symons among the moderns / Kostas Boyiopoulos -- Richard Le Gallienne : a jongleur strayed into the modern world / Margaret Stetz -- "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 / Luke Seaber -- A large mouth shown to a dentist : G.K. Chesterton's surgical parodying of T.S. Eliot / Michael Shallcross -- Modernist or realist? : the double vision of E.M. Forster / Kate Symondson -- The amateur modernist : C.L.R. James in Bloomsbury / Saikat Majumdar -- The iconoclasm of H.G. Wells and the modernist canon / Carey Snyder -- Writing for a new age : Arnold Bennett and the avant-garde / Anthony Patterson -- Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end and the tropes of nineteenth-century literary Toryism / Koenraad Claes.

"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 are reflected by those figures addressed by our contributors' chapters, which include Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, E.M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, M.R. James, C.L.R James, Vernon Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Richard La Galliene, Pamela Colman Smith, Arthur Symons, and H.G. Wells. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures predominately between 1890-1939, our volume questions traditional critical mappings, taxonomies, and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment. Our volume is equally sensitive to how the avant garde felt for those living and writing within the period with a view to offering a renewed sense of the literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism"-- Provided by publisher.