Beyond Modernism

Andrew Frayn is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, UKKatie Jones is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Swansea University, UK

• List of figuresNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Beyond Modernism, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK)Section 1: GenreIntroduction, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK)1. Serious Rivals: Popular Physics Writing as Noncanonical Literature, Michael H. Whitworth (University of Oxford, UK) 2. ‘I Hate Practical Englishmen’: Hugh Walpole’s The Dark Forest (1916), Anglo-Russian Encounter, and the modern-period canon, Nicholas Birns (New York University, USA)3. ‘Salute John Citizen’: Forgetting and Remembering Robert Greenwood’s People’s War Novels (1940-1949)’, Chris Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)4. The Anxious Modern Woman: Elizabeth Taylor’s Early Fiction, Jessica Gildersleeve (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)Section 2: FormIntroduction, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK)5. ‘Civilisation is on the Edge of a Precipice’ : interdisciplinarity and next-war fiction in Princess Paul Troubetzkoy and C.R.W. Nevinson’s Exodus A.D. (1934), Thomas Bromwell (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, UK)6. ‘A Fugal Siege’: Sacheverell Sitwell’s Canons of Giant Art (1933), Allan Pero (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada)7. Jessica Dismorr: Vorticism's Forgotten Voice, Lauren Faro (Independent scholar)8. ‘[A] writer of murk’: reading Oswell Blakeston’s obscurity, Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)Section 3: GenderIntroduction, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK)9. Postcolonial Interactions with British Non-Canonicity: Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’ (1905) and ‘Padmarag’ (1924) as Feminist Utopias, Rehnuma Sazzad (University of London, UK)10. Forced Independence: The Complicated, Non-Canonical Feminism of Violet Hunt, Melissa Dinsman (York College of the City University of New York, USA) and Heather Robinson (York College of the City University of New York, USA)11. Mourning the Canon: Exclusivity, Exclusion and Dorothy Edwards’s Short Stories, Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK)12. ‘Being at Home in the World’: Stella Benson’s Goodbye, Stranger (1926), Nicola Darwood (University of Bedfordshire, UK)13. Minding the gaps: Non canonicity and the cases of Rachel Annand Taylor and Rachel Cusk, Susan Reid (Independent Scholar)Conclusion: Noncanonical futures… Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK)Index

Beyond Modernism is a bold, thoroughly researched, collective manifesto about the value of reading noncanonically as a critical practice. Its theoretical framework promises to reshape our research, publishing, and teaching on noncanonical modern British writers, reminding us amid the clatter of the skeptics in the popular press why literary study and literary criticism still matter.