Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Part I Origins, Beginnings, and the New 7
1 Philosophy 9
Jean-Michel Rabaté
2 Religion 19
Pericles Lewis
3 Politics 29
Tyrus Miller
4 The Physical Sciences 39
Michael H. Whitworth
5 The Biological Sciences 50
Angelique Richardson
6 Technology 66
Sara Danius
7 Psychology 79
Perry Meisel
8 Anthropology 92
Patricia Rae
9 Obscenity and Censorship 103
David Bradshaw
10 Language 113
R. M. Berry
11 Geography 123
Nico Israel
12 Publishing 133
Mark S. Morrisson
13 Sex and Sexuality 143
Liesl Olson
Part II Movements 153
14 Literary Symbolism 155
Marshall C. Olds
15 Dada 163
Robert Short
16 Futurism 169
Tyrus Miller
17 Vorticism 176
Alan Munton
18 Imagism 183
Patrick McGuinness
19 Surrealism 189
Mary Ann Caws
20 Expressionism 198
Richard Murphy
21 Literary Impressionism 204
Max Saunders
Part III Modernist Genres and Modern Media 213
22 The Novel 215
Jesse Matz
23 Poetry 227
Adam Parkes
24 Drama 237
Stephen Watt
25 The Visual Arts 244
Richard Weston
26 Film 250
Laura Marcus
27 Music 258
Bernard Gendron
28 Dance 265
Susan Jones
29 Architecture 272
Lee Morrissey
30 Photography 278
Maggie Humm
Part IV Readings 285
31 W. H. Auden: Look, Stranger! 287
Steven Matthews
32 Djuna Barnes: Nightwood 297
Rebecca Loncraine
33 Samuel Beckett: Murphy 306
H. Porter Abbott
34 Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 314
Brian W. Shaffer
35 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 324
David Chinitz
36 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 333
Karl F. Zender
37 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 342
Ruth Prigozy
38 Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier 350
Sara Haslam
39 The Poetry of H. D. 358
Diana Collecott
40 Langston Hughes: Fine Clothes to the Jew 367
Edward Brunner
41 Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God 376
Cheryl A. Wall
42 James Joyce: Ulysses 384
Michael Patrick Gillespie
43 D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love 393
Joyce Piell Wexler
44 Wyndham Lewis: Tarr 402
Andrzej Gasiorek
45 Mina Loy: Lunar Baedecker 411
Michael Thurston
46 Marianne Moore: Observations 422
Catherine Paul
47 Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 431
Michael Coyle
48 Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage 440
Laura Marcus
49 Gertrude Stein: Three Lives 450
Jaime Hovey
50 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 459
Jonathan Levin
51 Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts 469
Jay Martin
52 William Carlos Williams: Paterson 478
Daniel Morris
53 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse 486
Pamela L. Caughie
54 Richard Wright: Native Son 499
Bill V. Mullen
55 W. B. Yeats: The Tower (1928) 507
Edward Larrissy
56 Modernist Critical Prose 516
Gary S. Wihl
Part V Other Modernisms 525
57 Modernism and Race 527
Martha Jane Nadell
58 Modernism and Gender 535
Bonnie Kime Scott
59 Modernism Queered 542
Laura Doan and Jane Garrity
60 Postcolonial Modernism 551
Bart Moore-Gilbert
61 Global Modernisms 558
Melba Cuddy-Keane
62 Postmodernism 565
Bran Nicol
Epilogue: Modernism Now 571
Marjorie Perloff
Index 579
