Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War

Cedric Van Dijck is a postdoctoral fellow in English Literature at the University of Brussels (VUB). He is a co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (2023) and The Intellectual Response to the First World War (2017). His research on modernism and war has appeared in PMLA, TSLL, Modernism/modernity, Times Literary Supplement and Modernist Cultures.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editors' Preface Introduction1 Guillaume Apollinaire’s Curiosities2 E. M. Forster in the Streets3 Monuments in Virginia Woolf and Hope Mirrlees4 Mulk Raj Anand in the MudCoda: At the MuseumBibliographyIndex

In Cedric van Dijck’s wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, the material turn in war studies meets the material turn in modernist scholarship in a productive and altogether compelling collision, building on and advancing existing work in both areas.