{"product_id":"a-concise-companion-to-modernism-paperback-softback-9780631220558","title":"A Concise Companion to Modernism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631220558","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Concise Companion to Modernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Bradshaw (Edited by), D Bradshaw (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631220558, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘This is the most exciting and vibrant introduction to Anglo-American Modernism yet to appear. ... The \u003ci\u003eConcise Companion to Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e is bound to become the main textbook for all those who want to understand more deeply the culture of the first three decades of the last century.’ \u003ci\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[...] I would recommend this volume to any library with a readership who comes either out of interest, or as students of the period needing to understand the context in which ideas emerged, looking for a way into the text. [...]A select bibliography at the end of the book provides even more options for advanced research, completing a most useful guidebook to some interesting themes.\" \u003ci\u003eReference Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[McDonald] supplies everything any reader would need to understand the whole social and critical history of modernist publishing.\" \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis concise \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOrganised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRelates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Bradshaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Life Sciences: “Everybody nowadays talks about evolution” 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngelique Richardson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Eugenics: “They should certainly be killed” 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Bradshaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Nietzscheanism: “The Superman and the all-too-human” 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Anthropology: “The latest form of evening entertainment” 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy MacClancy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Bergsonism: “Time out of mind” 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Ann Gillies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: “The rituals of destruction” 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Frosh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Language: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eApril McMahon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Technology: “Multiplied man” 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Concept of the State 1880–1939: “The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well” 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Wilkinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Physics: “A strange footprint” 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael H. 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