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This book shows how early twentieth-century British literature responded to the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world.
List of contents
Introduction James Purdon; Part I. Nation and Empire: 1. Aliens Robbie Moore; 2. Oceanic States: Modernism, Imperialism, and the Sea Matthew P. M. Kerr; 3. Passage Work: The Rise of 'English'? Helen Thaventhiran; 4. Anglo-Irish Transitions Andrew Murphy; 5. British War Writing: Empire, Mass Warfare, and Mass Culture Andrew Frayn; 6. Capturing Home: British First World War Poetry Guy Cuthbertson; Part II. Media: 7. Literature and Wartime Propaganda James Purdon; 8. Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the Paysage Moralisé of the British Press Abbie Garrington; 9. Notable Trials and Literary Realism Rex Ferguson; 10. Literature and Telecommunication Richard Menke; 11. Literature and Film Laura Marcus; Part III. Aesthetics: 12. Transitions, Turns: Centuries, Decadents, Modernists Vincent Sherry; 13. Poetry and Transition Sean Pryor; 14. Realism and Mass Politics Andrew Shail; 15. Short Fiction David Trotter; 16. Ideals of a Picture Gallery Claudia Tobin; Part IV. Society: 17. Pseudo-cities: Exhibitionary, Military, Cinematic George Potts; 18. Ecological Points of View Andrew Kalaidjian; 19. Gender, Biopolitics, Bildungsroman Charlotte Jones; 20. Freudian Fiction or Wild Psycho-analysis?: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and Popular Fiction Helen Tyson; 21. The Economics of Generosity in Ford, Conrad, and Keynes Beci Carver.
About the author
James Purdon is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State (2016), and co-editor, with Rex Ferguson and Melissa M. Littlefield, of The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity (2021).
Summary
British literature between 1900 and 1920 has usually been conceived in terms of the unstoppable rise of modernism and the social and cultural upheavals caused by the First World War. Telling a wider story, this volume illuminates the diversity of British literary culture in the century's first two decades.
