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Violent Minds
Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.
Sciences of Modernism
Sciences of Modernism charts the numerous collaborations and competitions occurring between early modernist literature and early twentieth-century science.
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel
This study, first published in 2000, examines the impact of nationalist political thought on the modern novel.
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity
This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science, tracing the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity.
The Great War and the Language of Modernism
Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. He recovers the political discourses of the British campaign, offering new readings of Woolf, Eliot and Pound.
Modernist Parasites
Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, Sebastian Williams posits that the “parasite” came to be humanity’s ultimate other—a dangerous antagonist. But many authors such as Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell reconsider parasitism. Ultimately, parasites inherently depend on others for their survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities.
Out of Place
In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. Analyzing imperial crisis zones--including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton ...
Cybernetic Aesthetics
This book shows that modernist literature creatively negotiated the same issues of data processing that cybernetics technologies would later tackle.
Reproduction by Design
Drawing on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s and 1930s, this book examines modern science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.
A History of Modernist Literature
A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s
