Transatlantic Avant-Gardes

Eric White is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, he has taught at the University of Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Edinburgh, and has held fellowships at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Oxford. Eric is PI and co-founder of the Avant-Gardes and Speculative Technology Project, which re-imagines modernists’ inventions using Augmented Reality.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Notes on Sources; Prologue; i.i ‘A Core About Which / Not a Box Inside Which Every Item’: Little Magazines and the Modernist Transatlantic; i.ii Locational Poetics and Geographical Materialism; i.iii ‘The Locality is the Only Universal’: Distinguishing Localist Modernism; i.iv The Advance Guard Magazine; i.v Conclusion; Chapter 1: Contra Mundum: Others and the Transatlantic Village; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A New Washington Square: The Greenwich Village Nexus and the ‘Marketplace-to-be’, 1913-16; 1.3 American Free Verse: Ridgefield’s Magazines, Imagist Print Cultures, and the Ascent of Others; 1.4 Love Songs and Rogue Traders: Others, Rogue, and Transatlantic New York; 1.5 ‘Native by Influence If Not by Species’: Others and American (Market) Places; 1.6 The ‘Competitive Number’ and the Limits of ‘Otherness’; 1.7 Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Vortex of the Page: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis and the Modernist Problem of Place; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound’s Journey from Image to Vortex; 2.3 The Other’s Vortex: William Carlos Williams’s Transatlantic Backgrounds; 2.4 ‘The Crowd Master’: Blast and Wyndham Lewis’s Urban Spaces; 2.5 Conclusion: Transatlantic Vorticism; Chapter 3: ‘Backgrounds and Extensions’: The Ascent of Localist Modernism; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 ‘Literary Americanism’: The Seven Arts and the New Regionalism; 3.3 Local Alternatives: The Soil and the ‘End’ of Others; 3.4 The Afterlives of Others; 3.5 The Edges of America: Localist Poetics in Contact; 3.6 ‘The Impact of Experience’; 3.7 Conclusion: ‘Broken By the Contact’; Chapter 4: Location, Location, Location: America, Relativity, and ‘the New Science of Advertising’; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Hook, Line, and Sinker: ‘25¢ = Advertising Number’; 4.3 ‘Don’t Imagine That I Think Economics Interesting’: Ezra Pound and the Actual World; 4.4 ‘St. Francis Einstein’ in the ‘Sweet Land of Liberty’; 4.5 ‘Jazz Opera Americano’: American Identity Abroad; 4.6 Conclusion: ‘But if it Ends/The Start is Begun’; Chapter 5: Secessions and Symposia: American Identity and Transatlantic Colour Lines in Modernist Magazines; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Closed Circuits and Missed Contacts: American Identities in Secession; 5.3 ‘Declension from Unanimity’: S4N and Unanimisme; 5.4 The New Negro Renaissance and the ‘Crucible’ of Harlem; 5.5 Railroaded: The Spatial Poetics of Fire!!; 5.6 Conclusion; Chapter 6: New Localism, Late Modernism, and America’s Unfinished Spaces; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Localist and Dadaist Legacies, 1924 to 1928; 6.3 The Atlantic Canon: the transatlantic review and The Exile; 6.4 Blues and the Margins of Modernity; 6.5 The Voyage to Pagany and the Rebirth of Localism; 6.6 ‘Hand to Mouth, Eye to Brain Existence’: A Return to Contact; Epilogue.

White’s rich archive of evidence drawn from transatlantic little magazines will prove extremely valuable to both modernist and American periodical studies.