Literature, politics, and the English avant-garde : nation and empire, 1901-1918 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peppis, Paul, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Literature, Experimental > Great Britain > History and criticism. Lewis, Wyndham, > 1882-1957 > Criticism and interpretation. National characteristics, English, in literature. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1901-1936. Modernism (Literature) > England. Nationalism in literature. Imperialism in literature. Vorticism > England.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: nations, empires, and the historical avant-garde
Conjuring new character: The English Review, Wyndham Lewis, and the reconstruction of Englishness
Narratives of ambition and anxiety: confronting Europe in The New Age
Advancing art and empire: Futurism in England, Italy in Libya, and the founding of Vorticism
"Surrounded by a multitude of other Blasts": Vorticism and the Great War
Anti-individualism and fictions of national character in Lewis's Tarr.