Christos Hadjiyiannis is currently a Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on modernism, including essays on T. E. Hulme and Edward Storer; Ezra Pound; J. M. Kennedy; Imagism; the avant-garde; and affect theory, phenomenology, and the literature of the First World War. He has written various encyclopedia entries and reviews non-fiction books regularly.

• Preface: modernists against modernity; 1. Conservative party crisis: Tory propaganda, imagist poetics; 2. Bringing poetry and politics back to Earth: Tory ideology and classical modernism; 3. The writer as conservative statesman: modernist theories of inspiration; 4. Against representation: conservatism and abstract art; 5. War, duty, sacrifice: anti-pacifism and objective ethics; Afterword: afterlives.

Christos Hadjiyiannis is currently a Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on modernism, including essays on T. E. Hulme and Edward Storer; Ezra Pound; J. M. Kennedy; Imagism; the avant-garde; and affect theory, phenomenology, and the literature of the First World War. He has written various encyclopedia entries and reviews non-fiction books regularly.

• Preface: modernists against modernity; 1. Conservative party crisis: Tory propaganda, imagist poetics; 2. Bringing poetry and politics back to Earth: Tory ideology and classical modernism; 3. The writer as conservative statesman: modernist theories of inspiration; 4. Against representation: conservatism and abstract art; 5. War, duty, sacrifice: anti-pacifism and objective ethics; Afterword: afterlives.

Christos Hadjiyiannis is currently a Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on modernism, including essays on T. E. Hulme and Edward Storer; Ezra Pound; J. M. Kennedy; Imagism; the avant-garde; and affect theory, phenomenology, and the literature of the First World War. He has written various encyclopedia entries and reviews non-fiction books regularly.

• Preface: modernists against modernity; 1. Conservative party crisis: Tory propaganda, imagist poetics; 2. Bringing poetry and politics back to Earth: Tory ideology and classical modernism; 3. The writer as conservative statesman: modernist theories of inspiration; 4. Against representation: conservatism and abstract art; 5. War, duty, sacrifice: anti-pacifism and objective ethics; Afterword: afterlives.