Modernism (Bloomsbury Sourcebooks) de Steven Matthews

Modernism: A Sourcebook: Bloomsbury Sourcebooks

Steven Matthews

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A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material drawing connections to the major Modernist texts, and a full introduction outlining the key events, social and political movements, and cultural issues of the time.

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STEVEN MATTHEWS is Professor of English Literature at Reading University. His publications include Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation (Palgrave Macmillan 1997), Yeats as Precursor (Palgrave Macmillan 2001) and Les Murray (MUP 2002). He is co-editor of Rewriting the Thirties (Longman 1997) and series editor of Contexts (Arnold).

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FULL CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TIMELINE CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MAJOR MODERNIST TEXTS SECTION ONE: KEY HISTORICAL EVENTS Introduction WORLD WAR ONE Editorial on the Military Service Bill, which brought universal conscription to the UK, The Daily News and Leader, Thursday, January 6, 1916 Documents relating to the first day of the Battle of the Somme The U.S. enters the War. IRISH RISING, EASTER 1916. SECTION TWO: SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND CLASS Introduction 1. Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labour 2. Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 3. A.R. Orage, 'Towards Socialism V. The Meaning of Civilisation' 4. L.T. Hobhouse, Liberalism 5. Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence 6. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace 7. John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy 8. Charles F. G. Masterman, England After War 9. C.H. Douglas, Social Credit SECTION THREE: GENDER AND SEXUALITY Introduction 1. Otto Weininger, Sex and Character 2. Two articles from The Suffragette: a) Christabel Pankhurst,'The Women's Insurrection' b) Sylvia Pankhurst, 'They Tortured Me' 3. Two articles from The Woman's Dreadnought: a) Ennis Richmond, 'What the War Means to Us' b) Sylvia Pankhurst, 'The War Cure' 4. Alice Stone Blackwell, 'Jane Addams Testifies' 5. Margaret H. Sanger, Family Limitation 6. Havelock Ellis, The Erotic Rights of Women and The Objects of Marriage 7. F. Stella Browne, 'Studies in Feminine Inversion' SECTION FOUR: RELIGION AND BELIEF Introduction 1. J.G. Frazer, The Golden Bough 2. Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature. 3. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience 4. Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 5. Jessie L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance 6. Jane Harrison, Epilogomena to the Study of Greek Religion SECTION FIVE: PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS Introduction 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra 2. Max Nordau, Degeneration 3. William James, Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking 4. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution 5. T.E. Hulme, 'Romanticism and Classicism' 6. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West SECTION SIX: 'HIGH' CULTURE Introduction 1. Marinetti in London, 1912 and 1913 2. The Ballets Russes 3. Classical Music 4. Fine Art The Post-Impressionist Exhibitions in London, 1910-11 and 1912 The 'Armory Show', New York, 17 February - 15th March, 1913 5. Photography 6. Theatre SECTION SEVEN: 'POPULAR' CULTURE Introduction 1. ''I Am Here To-day': Charlie Chaplin. 2. 'Toujours Jazz' 3. Music Hall 4. Vaudeville SECTION EIGHT: LITERARY PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION Introduction 1. Walter Dill Scott, The Psychology of Advertising. 2. Two editorial notes from The Egoist 3. John Gould Fletcher, 'Vers Libre and Advertisements' 4. Jane Heap, 'Art and the Law' SECTION NINE: EMPIRE, RACE, AND POSTCOLONIALISM Introduction 1. John M. Robertson, Patriotism and Empire 2. J.A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study 3. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. 4. A. G. Crafter, ''England's Day of Reckoning' 5. Benjamin Brawley, A Social History of the American Negro. 6. Annie Besant, Theosophy and World-Problems 7. Two documents relating to Ireland, Easter 1916 8. Alain Locke, Preface to The New Negro: An Interpretation SECTION TEN: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Introduction 1. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. 2. Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics 3. Raymond Pearl, Modes of Research in Genetics 4. Anthony Freiling, 'Loss of Personality from 'Shell Shock'' 5. W.H.R. Rivers, 'An Address on the Repression of War Experience' 6. A.S. Eddington Space Time and Gravitation 7. Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity 8. Bertrand Russell, ABC of Relativity BIBLIOGRAPHY ILLUSTRATIONS Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Red Stone Dancer-Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage 1907.