Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org), he is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rabaté has authored or edited 38 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce.Angeliki Spiropoulou is Associate Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at Peloponnese University, and Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She works on English and European modernism. She has authored or (co-)edited the books: Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin; History of European Literature 18th-20thC.; Culture Agonistes; and Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity.

• List of illustrations Notes on contributorsPreface Foreword: Modernism, time and history - Terry Eagleton Historical modernisms: Introduction - Jean-Michel Rabaté and Angeliki Spiropoulou Part I Historicizing modernism1 ‘The Last Witnesses’: Autobiography and history in the 1930s - Laura Marcus 2 Spatial histories of magazines and modernisms - Andrew Thacker 3 Rethinking the modernist moment: Crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed - Kairos Vassiliki Kolocotroni 4 ‘Well now that’s done: And I’m glad it’s over’: Modernism, history and the future - Max Saunders 5 Historical and rhetorical emplotments of modernism: An interview with Hayden White - Angeliki Spiropoulou Part II Stories and histories of the avant-gardes6 Medium-New - Tyrus Miller 7 Time assemblage: History in the European avant-gardes - Sascha Bru 8 Clement Greenberg’s modernism: Historicizable or ahistorical? - Rahma Khazam 9 Beer in Bohemian Paris: A symbol of the Third Republic - Alexandra Bickley Trott 10 From the marvellous to the managerial: Life at the Surrealist Research Bureau - Rachel Silveri 11 History and active thought: The Belgrade surrealist circle’s transforming praxis - Sanja Bahun Bibliography 234Index 253

Challenging, thoughtful, and informative.

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org), he is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rabaté has authored or edited 38 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce.Angeliki Spiropoulou is Associate Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at Peloponnese University, and Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She works on English and European modernism. She has authored or (co-)edited the books: Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin; History of European Literature 18th-20thC.; Culture Agonistes; and Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity.

• List of illustrations Notes on contributorsPreface Foreword: Modernism, time and history - Terry Eagleton Historical modernisms: Introduction - Jean-Michel Rabaté and Angeliki Spiropoulou Part I Historicizing modernism1 ‘The Last Witnesses’: Autobiography and history in the 1930s - Laura Marcus 2 Spatial histories of magazines and modernisms - Andrew Thacker 3 Rethinking the modernist moment: Crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed - Kairos Vassiliki Kolocotroni 4 ‘Well now that’s done: And I’m glad it’s over’: Modernism, history and the future - Max Saunders 5 Historical and rhetorical emplotments of modernism: An interview with Hayden White - Angeliki Spiropoulou Part II Stories and histories of the avant-gardes6 Medium-New - Tyrus Miller 7 Time assemblage: History in the European avant-gardes - Sascha Bru 8 Clement Greenberg’s modernism: Historicizable or ahistorical? - Rahma Khazam 9 Beer in Bohemian Paris: A symbol of the Third Republic - Alexandra Bickley Trott 10 From the marvellous to the managerial: Life at the Surrealist Research Bureau - Rachel Silveri 11 History and active thought: The Belgrade surrealist circle’s transforming praxis - Sanja Bahun Bibliography 234Index 253

Challenging, thoughtful, and informative.

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org), he is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rabaté has authored or edited 38 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce.Angeliki Spiropoulou is Associate Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at Peloponnese University, and Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She works on English and European modernism. She has authored or (co-)edited the books: Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin; History of European Literature 18th-20thC.; Culture Agonistes; and Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity.

• List of illustrations Notes on contributorsPreface Foreword: Modernism, time and history - Terry Eagleton Historical modernisms: Introduction - Jean-Michel Rabaté and Angeliki Spiropoulou Part I Historicizing modernism1 ‘The Last Witnesses’: Autobiography and history in the 1930s - Laura Marcus 2 Spatial histories of magazines and modernisms - Andrew Thacker 3 Rethinking the modernist moment: Crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed - Kairos Vassiliki Kolocotroni 4 ‘Well now that’s done: And I’m glad it’s over’: Modernism, history and the future - Max Saunders 5 Historical and rhetorical emplotments of modernism: An interview with Hayden White - Angeliki Spiropoulou Part II Stories and histories of the avant-gardes6 Medium-New - Tyrus Miller 7 Time assemblage: History in the European avant-gardes - Sascha Bru 8 Clement Greenberg’s modernism: Historicizable or ahistorical? - Rahma Khazam 9 Beer in Bohemian Paris: A symbol of the Third Republic - Alexandra Bickley Trott 10 From the marvellous to the managerial: Life at the Surrealist Research Bureau - Rachel Silveri 11 History and active thought: The Belgrade surrealist circle’s transforming praxis - Sanja Bahun Bibliography 234Index 253

Challenging, thoughtful, and informative.