Italian Futurism and the development of English literary Modernism /

Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism's role in the development of English literary modernism. Beginning with an analysis of Italian Futurism's transnational affiliations, its position in the European cultural field...

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Main Author: Jakeman, Robyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Series:Historicizing modernism.
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Summary:Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism's role in the development of English literary modernism. Beginning with an analysis of Italian Futurism's transnational affiliations, its position in the European cultural field and a reassessment of its reception in England, it goes on to reevaluate three key modernist figures, the Poetry Bookshop proprietor and editor Harold Monro, the Vorticist impresario Wyndham Lewis and the poet and artist Mina Loy.
Physical Description:xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-213) and index.
ISBN:9781350327689
1350327689
9781350327726
1350327727