Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century

Caroline Edwards, University of Lincoln, UKNina Engelhardt, University of Edinburgh, UKElizabeth English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKNick Hubble, Brunel University, UKDavid James, Queen Mary, University of London, UKScott W. Klein, Wake Forest University, USADouglas Mao, Johns Hopkins University, USAAlice Reeve-Tucker, University of Birmingham, UKShawna Ross, Arizona State University, USAGlyn Salton-Cox, postgraduate researcher, USANathan Waddell, University of Nottingham, UK

• Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Alice Reeve-Tucker and Nathan Waddell 1. The Point of It; Douglas Mao 2. A Likely Impossibility: The Good Soldier, the Modernist Novel, and Quasi-Familial Transcendence; Scott W. Klein 3. Providing Ridicule: Wyndham Lewis and Satire in the Postwar-to-end-war World; Nathan Waddell 4. Naomi Mitchison: Fantasy and Intermodern Utopia; Nick Hubble 5. Lesbian Modernism and Utopia: Sexology and the Invert in Katharine Burdekin's Fiction; Elizabeth English 6. Syncretic Utopia, Transnational Provincialism: Rex Warner's The Wild Goose Chase; Glyn Salton-Cox 7. The Role of Mathematics in Modernist Utopia: Imaginary Numbers in Zamyatin's We and Pynchon's Against the Day; Nina Engelhardt 8. The Two Hotels of Elizabeth Bowen: Utopian Leisure in the Age of Mechanized Hospitality; Shawna Ross 9. 'Seeing beneath the formlessness': James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Restorative Urbanism; David James 10. Uncovering the 'gold-bearing rubble': Ernst Bloch's Literary Criticism; Caroline Edwards Bibliography