Jackson, P. (2012) Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine. London: Continuum. 9781441180087.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Abstract: | The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's study engages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against a figure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson examines further a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views. This reinterpretation of modernism provides a historicised understanding of the politicised hopes of artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal. Considering modernist writers' relationship between politics, philosophy and aesthetics in the context of total war Jackson encourages new cultural-historical definitions of modernism. In addition this study provides the first close analysis of cultural contributions from a leading wartime Little Magazine, tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in its pages |
| Subjects: |
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D501 World War I (1914-1918) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN4699 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. > PN4735 Relation to the state. Government and the press. Liberty of the press > PN4751 Press and politics P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN4699 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. > PN4840 By region or country |
| Creators: | Jackson, Paul |
| Publisher: | Continuum |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > School of Social Sciences (to 2016) University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > History Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > History |
| Date: | 12 July 2012 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Series Name: | Historicizing modernism |
| Place of Publication: | London |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9781441180087 |
| Media of Output: | Book |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/5409 |
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