Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics

Gemma Moss is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University. She has published on music in Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, and is editor of E. M. Forster’s first novel Where Angels Fear to Tread for the Cambridge Edition of the Fiction of E. M. Forster, which is due for publication in 2024.

• AcknowledgementsPermissionsList of Abbreviations and Editions Used in the TextList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1. On music and modernism: philosophies, histories, approaches 2. James Joyce, Ulysses and the politics of musical form3. Ezra Pound, music and fascism: towards Canto 754. Sylvia Townsend Warner, ideology and Marxist aesthetics5. Music and twenty-first century modernismBibliographyIndex

Taking up longstanding debates on the politics of modernist aesthetics, Gemma Moss frames her lines of inquiry brilliantly through Adorno.　 Her understanding of music is crucial to her breakthrough understandings.　 This is a book that will make a significant difference in our reading and listening to modernism at work in the world.