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Zusatztext 'Jackson explores the intense mood of expectancy of a new era induced in the generation of British intellectuals directly affected by the catastrophe of the First World War. In doing so he shows how a wide variety of longings for regeneration are linked with the radical experimentations in aesthetics! social organization! economics! and politics that fed into inter-war European thought - each of which are increasingly recognized as different manifestations of modernism. As a result! all too familiar 'English' figures suddenly appear in a fresh 'continental' light. This new approach hopefully signals a belated readiness of British cultural historians to break out of decades of self-imposed insularity and isolationism when considering Europe-wide cultures of modernism.' Informationen zum Autor Paul Jackson is Senior Lecturer in History at the Universityof Northampton, UK. Zusammenfassung The literary magazine The New Age broughttogether a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the FirstWorld War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. Byclosely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's studyengages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists tomodernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as anaesthetic phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against afigure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson examinesfurther a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views. Thisreinterpretation of modernism provides a historicised understanding of thepoliticised hopes of artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal.Considering modernist writers' relationship between politics,philosophy andaesthetics in the context of total war Jackson encourages newcultural-historical definitions of modernism. In addition this study providesthe first close analysis of cultural contributions from a leading wartimeLittle Magazine, tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in itspages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Great WarModernisms \ Chapter 2: A. R. Orage andModernist Publicism in the era of the First World War\ Chapter 3: War, The New Age and Guild Socialism'sPolitical Modernism\ Chapter 4: The New Age 's RadicalIntelligentsia and Modernism Chapter 5: Wyndham Lewis'sModernist Aesthetics Chapter 6: H. G. Wells andthe First World War Conclusion \ Bibliography Index...
