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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955

Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker

Abstract

The first of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this book studies the wide and varied range of ‘little magazines’ which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and artistic modernism in the UK and Ireland. Thirty-seven chapters investigate the inner dynamics and economic and intellectual conditions that governed the life of these fugitive but vibrant publications. The book shows the role of editors and sponsors, the relation of the arts to contemporary philosophy and politics ... More

Keywords: modernist magazine, little magazines, new writing, modernism, editors, sponsors, contemporary philosophy, innovation, radical ideas

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199654291
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199654291.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Peter Brooker, editor
Professorial Fellow, The Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex

Andrew Thacker, editor
Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, School of English Performance and Historical Studies, De Montfort University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Contributors

General Introduction

Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker

I Victorian Precursors

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

1 The Pre-History of the ‘Little Magazine’

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and John Plunkett

2 In The Beginning, There was The Germ

Marysa Demoor

II Fin De Siècle Ventures (1884–1906)

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

3 Aestheticism and Decadence

Laurel Brake

4 Symbolism in British ‘Little Magazines’

David Peters Corbett

5 ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement’

Imogen Hart

III Early Statements (1899–1915)

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

6 Yeats and the Celtic Revival

Alex Davis

7 The New Poetry, Georgians and Others

Dominic Hibberd

IV Transitions

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

8 Democracy and Modernism

Ann L. Ardis

9 Ford Madox Ford and The English Review (1908–37)

Cliff Wulfman

10 The London Mercury (1919–39) and Other Moderns

J. Matthew Huculak

V Interventions

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

11 Gender and Modernism

Jean-Michel Rabaté

12 The ‘Little Magazine’ as Weapon

Andrzej Gasiorek

13 Harmony, Discord, And Difference

Peter Brooker

VI Editors and Programmes

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

14 The Idea of a Literary Review

Jason Harding

15 Enemies of Cant

Michael H. Whitworth

16 Standards of Criticism

John Lucas

17 The Cause of Poetry

Mark S. Morrisson

18 Desmond Maccarthy, Life and Letters (1928–35), and Bloomsbury Modernism

Jane Goldman

VII Into The 1920s: Dispersal and Difference

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

19 Aftermath of War

Andrew Thacker

20 Literature and The Visual Arts

Rebecca Beasley

21 Cinema and Visual Culture

Laura Marcus

22 Interventions in the Public Sphere

Jane Dowson

23 Cultural Criticism at the Margins

Paul Edwards

24 Nostalgia and Reaction

Stephen Rogers

VIII Commitment to The New

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

25 Cambridge Magazines and Unfinished Business

Scott Mccracken

26 Art and Politics in the 1930s

Peter Marks

27 Poetry Then

Stan Smith

28 A New Prose

Françoise Bort

29 ‘National Papers Please Reprint’: Surrealist Magazines in Britain

Rod Mengham

IX Beyond The Metropolis

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

30 Wales (1937–9), The Welsh Review (1939–40)

Chris Hopkins

31 From Revolution to Republic: Magazines, Modernism, and Modernity in Ireland

Frank Shovlin

32 Modernism and National Identity in Scottish Magazines

Cairns Craig

33 A New ‘Art of The Theatre’

Olga Taxidou

34 Modernism as ‘Uninfected Discourse’

Mark Jacobs

X The Call to Criticism and Modernist Destinies

Introduction

Peter Brooker, and Andrew Thacker

35 ‘Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth … ‘

Sean Matthews

36 Cyril Connolly’s Horizon (1940–50) and the End of Modernism

Sean Latham

37 The Apocalyptic Poets, ‘New Modernism’, and ‘The Progressive View of Art’

James Keery

End Matter

Bibliography

Index