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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462405803321

Autore

Jackson Paul <1978->

Titolo

Great War modernisms and The new age magazine : historicizing modernism / / Paul Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY : , : Continuum International Pub. Group, , 2012

ISBN

1-4411-3802-1

1-4725-4305-X

1-283-73584-9

1-4411-2781-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Historicizing modernism

Disciplina

050.941

Soggetti

Literature publishing - History - 20th century

Little magazines - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Press and politics - Great Britain - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Great War Modernisms -- Chapter 2: A. R. Orage and Modernist Publicism in the era of the First World War -- Chapter 3: War, The New Age and Guild Socialism's Political Modernism -- Chapter 4: The New Age's Radical Intelligentsia and Modernism -- Chapter 5: Wyndham Lewis's Modernist Aesthetics -- Chapter 6: H. G. Wells and the First World War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's study engages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists to



modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against a figure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson examines further a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views. This reinterpretation of modernism provides a historicised understanding of the politicised hopes of artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal. Considering modernist writers' relationship between politics,philosophy and aesthetics in the context of total war Jackson encourages new cultural-historical definitions of modernism. In addition this study provides the first close analysis of cultural contributions from a leading wartime Little Magazine, tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in its pages."--Bloomsbury Publishing.