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Informationen zum Autor David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at Oxford University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernist literature, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of Lawrence's Women in Love (1998), Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006), and the Penguin Classics editions of Waugh's Decline and Fall (2001) and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor of A Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and is Victorian and Modern Literature Editor of the Review of English Studies . Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College, California. He has written and edited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernist literature and culture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners , and has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is series editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature & Culture series published by Oxford University Press. Klappentext A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art. At its heart are 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God . The more than 60 contributors include some of the most distinguished modernist scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage, this Companion combines a thorough grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of these literary monuments. For this reason, both readers new to the subject and those who are already familiar with it will find the Companion a valuable reference to which they will return time and again. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture! contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements! and all the genres of modernist writing and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 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 21 Literary Impressionism 204 Max Saunders<...
