David Bradshaw 
A Concise Companion to Modernism 

This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.

* Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain.

* Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.

* Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres.

* Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Chronology xi

Introduction 1
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1 The Life Sciences: ‘Everybody nowadays talks about evolution’ 6
Angelique Richardson

2 Eugenics: ‘They should certainly be killed’ 34
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3 Nietzscheanism: ‘The Superman and the all-too-human’ 56
Michael Bell

4 Anthropology: ‘The latest form of evening entertainment’ 75
Jeremy Mac Clancy

5 Bergsonism: ‘Time out of mind’ 95
Mary Ann Gillies

6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: ‘The rituals of destruction’ 116
Stephen Frosh

7 Language: ‘History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake’ 138
April Mc Mahon

8 Technology: ‘Multiplied man’ 158
Tim Armstrong

9 The Concept of the State 1880-1939: ‘The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well’ 179
Sarah Wilkinson

10 Physics: ‘A strange footprint’ 200
Michael H. Whitworth

11 Modernist Publishing: ‘Nomads and mapmakers’ 221
Peter D. Mc Donald

12 Reading: ”Mind hungers’ common and uncommon’ 243
Todd Avery and Patrick Brantlinger

Select Bibliography 262

Index 266

About the author

David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, University of Oxford. Among other volumes, he has edited Brave New World (1994), The Hidden Huxley (1994), Women in Love (1998), Mrs Dalloway (2000), Decline and Fall (2001), and The Good Soldier (2002). He has also published extensively on Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and various aspects of literature and politics in the 1930s. He is an Editor of the Review of English Studies and a Fellow of the English Association.