Modernism

STEVEN MATTHEWS is Professor of English Literature at Reading University. His publications include Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation (Palgrave Macmillan 1997), Yeats as Precursor (Palgrave Macmillan 2001) and Les Murray (MUP 2002). He is co-editor of Rewriting the Thirties (Longman 1997) and series editor of Contexts (Arnold).

• FULL CONTENTS INTRODUCTIONTIMELINECHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MAJOR MODERNIST TEXTSSECTION ONE: KEY HISTORICAL EVENTSIntroductionWORLD WAR ONEEditorial on the Military Service Bill, which brought universal conscription to the UK, The Daily News and Leader, Thursday, January 6, 1916Documents relating to the first day of the Battle of the SommeThe U.S. enters the War. IRISH RISING, EASTER 1916. SECTION TWO: SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND CLASSIntroduction1. Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labour2. Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism3. A.R. Orage, 'Towards Socialism V. The Meaning of Civilisation'4. L.T. Hobhouse, Liberalism5. Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence6. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace7. John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy8. Charles F. G. Masterman, England After War9. C.H. Douglas, Social CreditSECTION THREE: GENDER AND SEXUALITYIntroduction1. Otto Weininger, Sex and Character2. Two articles from The Suffragette:a) Christabel Pankhurst,'The Women's Insurrection'b) Sylvia Pankhurst, 'They Tortured Me'3. Two articles from The Woman's Dreadnought:a) Ennis Richmond, 'What the War Means to Us'b) Sylvia Pankhurst, 'The War Cure'4. Alice Stone Blackwell, 'Jane Addams Testifies'5. Margaret H. Sanger, Family Limitation6. Havelock Ellis, The Erotic Rights of Women and The Objects of Marriage7. F. Stella Browne, 'Studies in Feminine Inversion'SECTION FOUR: RELIGION AND BELIEFIntroduction1. J.G. Frazer, The Golden Bough2. Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature. 3. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience4. Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life5. Jessie L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance6. Jane Harrison, Epilogomena to the Study of Greek ReligionSECTION FIVE: PHILOSOPHY AND IDEASIntroduction1. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra2. Max Nordau, Degeneration3. William James, Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking4. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution5. T.E. Hulme, 'Romanticism and Classicism'6. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the WestSECTION SIX: 'HIGH' CULTUREIntroduction1. Marinetti in London, 1912 and 19132. The Ballets Russes3. Classical Music4. Fine ArtThe Post-Impressionist Exhibitions in London, 1910-11 and 1912The 'Armory Show', New York, 17 February – 15th March, 19135. Photography6. TheatreSECTION SEVEN: 'POPULAR' CULTUREIntroduction1. ''I Am Here To-day': Charlie Chaplin.   2. 'Toujours Jazz'3. Music Hall4. VaudevilleSECTION EIGHT: LITERARY PRODUCTION AND RECEPTIONIntroduction1. Walter Dill Scott, The Psychology of Advertising. 2. Two editorial notes from The Egoist3. John Gould Fletcher, 'Vers Libre and Advertisements'4. Jane Heap, 'Art and the Law'SECTION NINE: EMPIRE, RACE, AND POSTCOLONIALISMIntroduction1. John M. Robertson, Patriotism and Empire2. J.A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study3. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk.  4. A. G. Crafter, ''England's Day of Reckoning'5. Benjamin Brawley, A Social History of the American Negro.  6. Annie Besant, Theosophy and World-Problems7. Two documents relating to Ireland, Easter 19168. Alain Locke, Preface to The New Negro: An InterpretationSECTION TEN: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYIntroduction1. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.   2. Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics3. Raymond Pearl, Modes of Research in Genetics4. Anthony Freiling, 'Loss of Personality from 'Shell Shock''5. W.H.R. Rivers, 'An Address on the Repression of War Experience'6. A.S. Eddington Space Time and Gravitation7. Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity8. Bertrand Russell, ABC of RelativityBIBLIOGRAPHYILLUSTRATIONSMarcel Duchamp, Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Red Stone Dancer-Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage 1907.

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