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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831160603321

Titolo

A concise companion to modernism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Bradshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003

ISBN

1-4051-6496-4

1-78268-442-5

1-282-37135-5

9786612371356

0-470-70261-3

0-470-69350-9

1-4051-4871-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BradshawDavid <1955->

Disciplina

820.900914

820.9112

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

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 (p. 262-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Concise Companion to Modernism; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Chronology; Introduction; 1 The Life Sciences:"Everybody nowadays talks about evolution "; 2 Eugenics:"They should certainly be killed "; 3 Nietzscheanism:"The Superman and the all-too-human "; 4 Anthropology:"The latest form of evening entertainment "; 5 Bergsonism:"Time out of mind "; 6 Psychoanalysis in Britain:"The rituals of destruction "; 7 Language:"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake "; 8 Technology:"Multiplied man "

9 The Concept of the State 1880 –1939:"The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well "10 Physics:"A strange footprint "; 11 Modernist Publishing:"Nomads and mapmakers "; 12 Reading:"'Mind hungers ' common and uncommon "; Select Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This concise companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the



intellectual and cultural contexts which shaped it.