A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

The Companion combines a broad 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 modernism. An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching GodPays close attention to both British and American modernism Content: Chapter 1 Philosophy (pages 9–18): Jean?Michel RabateChapter 2 Religion (pages 19–28): Pericles LewisChapter 3 Politics (pages 29–38): Tyrus MillerChapter 4 The Physical Sciences (pages 39–49): Michael H. WhitworthChapter 5 The Biological Sciences (pages 50–65): Angelique RichardsonChapter 6 Technology (pages 66–78): Sara DaniusChapter 7 Psychology (pages 79–91): Perry MeiselChapter 8 Anthropology (pages 92–102): Patricia RaeChapter 9 Obscenity and Censorship (pages 103–112): David BradshawChapter 10 Language (pages 113–122): R. M. BerryChapter 11 Geography (pages 123–132): Nico IsraelChapter 12 Publishing (pages 133–142): Mark S. MorrissonChapter 13 Sex and Sexuality (pages 143–151): Liesl OlsonChapter 14 Literary Symbolism (pages 155–162): Marshall C. OldsChapter 15 Dada (pages 163–168): Robert ShortChapter 16 Futurism (pages 169–175): Tyrus MillerChapter 17 Vorticism (pages 176–182): Alan MuntonChapter 18 Imagism (pages 183–188): Patrick McGuinnessChapter 19 Surrealism (pages 189–197): Mary Ann CawsChapter 20 Expressionism (pages 198–203): Richard MurphyChapter 21 Literary Impressionism (pages 204–211): Max SaundersChapter 22 The Novel (pages 215–226): Jesse MatzChapter 23 Poetry (pages 227–236): Adam ParkesChapter 24 Drama (pages 237–243): Stephen WattChapter 25 The Visual Arts (pages 244–249): Richard WestonChapter 26 Film (pages 250–257): Laura MarcusChapter 27 Music (pages 258–264): Bernard GendronChapter 28 Dance (pages 265–271): Susan JonesChapter 29 Architecture (pages 272–277): Lee MorrisseyChapter 30 Photography (pages 278–283): Maggie HummChapter 31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger! (pages 287–296): Steven MatthewsChapter 32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood (pages 297–305): Rebecca LoncraineChapter 33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy (pages 306–313): H. Porter AbbottChapter 34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (pages 314–323): Brian W. ShafferChapter 35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land (pages 324–332): David ChinitzChapter 36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (pages 333–341): Karl F. ZenderChapter 37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (pages 342–349): Ruth PrigozyChapter 38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier (pages 350–357): Sara HaslamChapter 39 The Poetry of H. D. (pages 358–366): Diana CollecottChapter 40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew (pages 367–375): Edward BrunnerChapter 41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God (pages 376–383): Cheryl A. WallChapter 42 James Joyce: Ulysses (pages 384–392): Michael Patrick GillespieChapter 43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love (pages 393–401): Joyce Piell WexlerChapter 44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr (pages 402–410): Andrzej GasiorekChapter 45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker (pages 411–421): Michael ThurstonChapter 46 Marianne Moore: Observations (pages 422–430): Catherine PaulChapter 47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (pages 431–439): Michael CoyleChapter 48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage (pages 440–449): Laura MarcusChapter 49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives (pages 450–458): Jaime HoveyChapter 50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium (pages 459–468): Jonathan LevinChapter 51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts (pages 469–477): Jay MartinChapter 52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson (pages 478–485): Daniel MorrisChapter 53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (pages 486–498): Pamela L. CaughieChapter 54 Richard Wright: Native Son (pages 499–506): Bill V. MullenChapter 55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) (pages 507–515): Edward LarrissyChapter 56 Modernist Critical Prose (pages 516–523): Gary S. WihlChapter 57 Modernism and Race (pages 527–534): Martha Jane NadellChapter 58 Modernism and Gender (pages 535–541): Bonnie Kime ScottChapter 59 Modernism Queered (pages 542–550): Laura Doan and Jane GarrityChapter 60 Postcolonial Modernism (pages 551–557): Bart Moore?GilbertChapter 61 Global Modernisms (pages 558–564): Melba Cuddy?KeaneChapter 62 Postmodernism (pages 565–570): Bran Nicol