Contents:
Volume 1: 1890-1934 Tim Middleton Introduction
1.
William James from The Principles of Psychology (New York, 1890), Extracts reprinted as 'The Stream of Consciousness' in Ellmann, Richard and Charles Feidelson JR, eds.
The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature pp. 715 - 723 [New York, Oxford University Press, 1965]
2.
Holbrook Jackson A Plea for Revolt in Attitude,
Rhythm, Vol.1, No.3, pp. 6 - 10 [Winter 1911]
3.
T.E. Hulme Romanticism and Classicism, (New Age, 1911) reprinted in
Speculations pp.113-40 [London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1924]
4.
Laurence Binyon The Return to Poetry,
Rhythm, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.1 - 2 [Spring 1912]
5.
Flint Imagisme
Poetry pp.129-130 [March 1913]
6.
Henry James The New Novel
Notes on Novelists (1914), reprinted in Henry James,
Selected Literary Criticism ed. M.Shapiro, pp.358 - 91 [Peregrine, London, 1968]
7.
T.S.Eliot Reflections on Verse Libre
New Statesman (March 3, 1917), reprinted in
To Criticise the Critic pp.183-9 [Faber, London, 1965]
8.
Pound Re verse libre, from 'A Retrospect' (1917), reprinted in
Literary Essays pp.12-13 [Faber, London, 1954]
9.
Albert Gleizes The Impersonality of American Art
Playboy No.s 4 & 5 pp.25-6 [1919]
10.
Ivor Richards Four Fermented Aesthetics
Art & Letters Vol. 2, No.4 (New Series), pp.186 - 193 [Autumn 1919]
11.
T.S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent
The Egoist (September / December 1919), reprinted in
The Sacred Wood pp.47-59 [Methuen, 1920]
12.
Virginia Woolf Modern Fiction
The Common Reader (Hogarth, London, 1925). Reprinted in
Virginia Woolf: Collected Essays: Volume 2 pp.105-110 [Hogarth Press, London, 1966]
13.
F.S. Flint Presentation: Notes on the Art of Writing; on the Artfulness of Some Writers and the Artlessness of Others
The Chapbook Vol. 2., No.9, pp.17 - 24 [March 1920]
14.
John Gould Fletcher Some Contemporary American Poets
The Chapbook Vol. 2, No.11, pp. 1 - 31 [May 1920]
15.
W.L. George A Painter's Literature
The English Review pp.223 - 234 [March 1920]
16.
Amy Lowell Weary Verse
The Dial Vol. 69, No.4, pp.424 - 431 [October 1920]
17.
Richard Aldington The Art of Poetry
The Dial Vol. 69, No.2, pp. 166 - 180 [August 1920]
18.
Claude Bragdon New Concepts of Time and Space
The Dial Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 187 - 191 [February 1920]
19.
Richard Aldington A Note on Poetry in Prose
The Chapbook No.22, pp.16 - 24 [April 1921]
20.
John Crowe Ransom The Future of Poetry
The Fugitive Vol. 3, No.1., pp.2 - 4 [February 1924]
21.
Allan Tate One Escape from the Dilemma
The Fugitive Vol.3, No.2 pp.34 - 36 [April 1924]
22.
Donald Davie Certain Fallacies in Modern Poetry
The Fugitive vol. 3, No. 3, pp.66 - 68 [June 1924]
23.
Edwin Muir The Zeit Geist
The Calendar of Modern Letters Vol. 2, No. 8. (October 1925) reprinted in Rickword & Garman, eds.
The Calendar of Modern Letters: March 1925 - July 1927: Volume 2: September 1925 - February 1926 pp. 112 - 118 [London, Frank Cass, 1966]
24.
Thomas Craven Photography and Painting
The Dial Vol. 79, No.3, pp. 195 - 202 [September 1925]
25.
Ernst Cassirer from
Language and Myth (1925). Extract 'The Validity and Form of Mythical Thought' printed in Ellmann, Richard and Charles Feidelson JR, eds.,
The Modern Tradition: Backgrounds of Modern Literature pp. 635 - 640 [New York, Oxford University Press, 1965]
26.
C.H. Rickword The Modern Novel (Review)
The Calendar of Modern Letters Vol. 3., No.2, (July 1926) reprinted in Rickword & Garman, eds.
The Calendar of Modern Letters: March 1925 - July 1927: Volume 3 & 4: April 1926 - July 1927 pp166- 68 [London, Frank Cass, 1966]
27. Unknown, A Note on Fiction
The Calendar of Modern Letters Vol. 3., No 3, (October 1926) reprinted in Rickword & Garman, eds.
The Calendar of Modern Letters: March 1925 - July 1927: Volume 3 & 4: April 1926 - July 1927 pp. 226 - 233 [London, Frank Cass, 1966]
28.
Robert Morss Lovett The Novel To-Day (Review)
The Dial Vol. 81, No.2, pp. 166-170 [August 1926]
29.
Wyndham Lewis The Values of the Doctrine behind 'Subjective' Art
The Monthly Criterion: A Literary Review Vol. VI, No.1, pp. 4 - 13 [July 1927]
30.
Laura Riding and
Robert Graves Modernist Poetry and the Plain Reader's Rights
A Survey of Modernist Poetry pp. 9 - 34 [London, William Heinemann, 1927]
31.
Albert Halper Whites Writing up the Blacks
The Dial Vol. 86, No.1, 29 - 30 [January 1929]
32.
Jose Ortega y Gasset The Crowd Phenomenon, from Kenneth Moore ed. and Anthony Kerrigan, trans.
The Revolt of the Masses (First pub. 1929) pp.3 - 10 [Notre Dame University Press, 1985]
33.
Beachcomber [J.B. Morton] 'Workmen at Play', 'I Might do Worse', 'Perhaps he was Right' and 'After You, Miss Stein'
By the Way pp. 52, 86, 129, 361 [London, Sheed & Ward,1931]
34.
Edmund Wilson Symbolism
Axel's Castle (first published by Scribner's 1931), pp.9 - 27 [reprinted London, Fontana, 1961]
35.
Joseph Warren Beach 'Program' and 'The Modernists'
The Twentieth Century Novel: Studies in Technique pp. 3 - 13, 332 - 336 [London & New York, Century, 1932]
36.
F.R. Leavis Epilogue
New Bearings in English Poetry: a Study of the Contemporary Situation (London, Chatto & Windus, 1932) pp.144 - 157 [Penguin, 1950]
37.
Geoffrey Bullough The Imagists
The Trend of Modern Poetry pp. 64 - 90 [Edinburgh & London, Oliver & Boyd, 1934]
Volume 2: 1935-1970 38.
Janko Lavrin The Futurist Interlude
Aspects of Modernism: From Wilde to Pirandello pp.183 - 196 [London, Stanley Nott, 1935]
39.
Philip Henderson The Function of the Novel
The Novel Today: Studies in Contemporary Attitudes pp.13 - 52 [London; John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936]
40.
Malcolm Cowley After the Genteel Tradition (Gloucester, MA., Peter Smith, 1936), reprinted in Barbour, Scott, ed.
American Modernism pp.155 - 161 [San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 2000]
41.
W.R. Inge Modernism in Literature
English Association pp.2-16 [London, November 1937]
42.
William C. Frierson The Post-War Novel: Impressionists and Freudians
The English Novel in Transition: 1885 - 1940 pp. 211 -236 [Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1942]
43.
Frederick J. Hoffman, Charles Allen and
Carolyn F. Ulrich The Little Review
The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography pp. 52 - 66 [Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1947 second edition]
44.
Erich Auerbach The Brown Stocking
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature pp.525-553 [Princeton University Press, 1953]
45.
Walter Allen 1914 and after
The English Novel: A short Critical History (London, Phoenix House, 1954) pp.341-364 [Penguin, 1958]
46.
Marcus Cunliffe The New Poetry
The Literature of the United States (London, Pelican, 1954) pp.251-272 [Penguin, 1970]
47.
Harry Levin What was Modernism?
The Massachusetts Review August 1960, reprinted in
Refractions: Essays in Comparative Literature pp. 271 - 295 [New York, Oxford University Press, 1966]
48.
Malcolm Bradbury A Review in Retrospect, first published in
The London Magazine, October 1961, reprinted in Rickword & Garman, eds.
The Calendar of Modern Letters: March 1925 - July 1927: Volume 1: March - August 1925 pp.i-xix [London, Frank Cass, 1966]
49.
Georg Lukács The Ideology of Modernism The Meaning of Contemporary Realism), pp17 - 46 [London, Merlin Press, 1963]
50.
John R. Harrison The Anti-Democratic Intelligentsia
The Reactionaries pp.15 - 35 [London, Victor Gollanz, 1966]
51.
Irving Howe The Characteristics of Modernism
The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts (New York, Horizon Press, 1967), reprinted in Barbour, Scott, ed.,
American Modernism pp. 28 - 35 [San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 2000]
52.
Frank Kermode The Modern
Continuities pp. 1 - 32 [London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968]
53.
Gabriel Josipovici The Birth of the Modern: 1885 - 1914, from Cruikshank, John, ed.
French Literature and Its Background: Volume 6: The Twentieth Century pp. 1 - 20 [Oxford University Press, 1970]
54.
Bernard Bergonzi The Advent of Modernism 1900 - 1920, from Bergonzi, ed.
History of Literature in the English Language: Volume 7. The Twentieth Century pp.17-48 [London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970]
Volume 3: 1971-1984 55.
Gabriel Josipovici Modernism and Romanticism
The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction pp.179 - 200 [London, Macmillan, 1971]
56.
Irving Howe The Culture of Modernism
The Decline of the New pp.3 - 33 [London, Victor Gollanz, 1971]
57.
Hugh Kenner The Invention of Language
The Pound Era (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971) pp.94-120 [London, Faber & Faber, 1972]
58.
Malcolm Bradbury Modernity in Modern English Literature
The Social Context of Modern English Literature pp.69 - 108 [Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1971]
59.
Patrick Bridgwater The 'Men of 1914' and Nietzsche
Nietzsche in Anglosaxony: A Study of Nietzsche's impact on English and American Literature pp.132 - 148 [Leicester University Press, 1972]
60.
Malcolm Bradbury The American Risorgimento: The United States and the Coming of the New Arts, from Cunliffe, Marcus, ed.
The Penguin History of Literature: Volume 9: American Literature Since 1900 pp.1 - 28 [London, Penguin, 1987]
61.
Hugh Kenner Chapter 1, 'So Here It Is at Last'
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers p. 3-19 [New York, Alfred Knopf, 1975]
62.
Robert Alteri The Modernist Revival of Self-Conscious Fiction
Partial Magic: the Novel as a Self Conscious Genre pp.138 - 79 [Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 1975]
63.
David Perkins The New Poetry of America
A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode pp. 293 - 328 [Cambridge, Mass., and London, Belknap Press, 1976]
64.
Matei Calinescu Literary and Other Modernisms
Faces of Modernity (Indiana University Press, 1977), from
Five Faces of Modernity pp.68 - 85 [Durham, N.C., Duke University press, 1987]
65.
Philip Hobsbaum The Growth of English Modernism
Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry pp.289-307 [London, Macmillan, 1979]
66.
Raymond Williams The Bloomsbury Fraction
Problems in Materialism & Culture: Selected Essays pp.148-169 [London, Verso Editions and NLB, 1980]
67.
Marcus Klein, from Foreigners: the making of American literature, 1900 - 1940 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981), reprinted in Barbour, Scott, ed.
American Modernism pp.162 - 170 [San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 2000]
68.
David Lodge Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism
Working with Structuralism pp.3- 16 [London, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1981]
69.
Franco Moretti The Spell of Indecision
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms translated by Susan Fischer, David Forgacs and David Miller, pp. 240 - 48 [London, Verso, 1983, revised edition 1988]
70.
Michael Levenson Symbol, impression, image, vortex
A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908 - 1922 pp.103 - 136 [Cambridge University Press, 1984]
Volume 4: 1985-1991 71.
Raymond Williams The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism, first published in Timms, Edward and David Kelley, eds.
Unreal City: Urban Experience in Modern European Literature and Art (Manchester University Press, 1985). Reprinted as 'Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism' in Pinkney, Tony, ed.
The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists pp.37 - 48 [London, Verso, 1989]
72.
Frederick Karl Modern and Postmodern, Modernism and Postmodernism
Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885 - 1925 pp.401 - 426 [New York, Atheneum, 1985]
73.
Hugh Kenner Modernism and What Happened to It
Essays in Criticism Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 97 - 109 [April 1987]
74.
Houston A. Baker JR. Chapters 1 and 8 from Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance pp. 1 - 8, 71 - 81 [Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1987]
75.
David Harvey Modernity and Modernism
The Condition of Postmodernity pp.10 - 38 [Oxford, Blackwell, 1989]
76.
Raymond Williams When was Modernism? (lecture at Uni. of Bristol, 1987), in Pinkney, Tony, ed.
The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists pp. 31 - 36 [London, Verso, 1989]
77.
Matei Calinescu On Postmodernism (1986)
Five Faces of Modernity pp.265 - 312 [Durham, N.C., Duke University press, 1987]
78.
Gillian Hanscombe and
Virginia L. Smyers Another Bloomsbury?
Writing for their Lives: The Modernist Women: 1910 - 1940 pp.1 - 13 [London, The Women's Press, 1987]
79.
Julian Symons The Nature of Modernism
Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912 - 1939 pp.58 - 71 [London, André Deutsch, 1987]
80.
Michael Long The Politics of English Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Joyce, from Timms, Edward, and Peter Collier, eds.
Visions and Blueprints: Avant-garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early Twentieth Century Europe pp. 98 - 112 [Manchester University Press, 1988]
81.
Charles Altieri Modes of Abstraction in Modernist Poetry
Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism pp. 222 - 82 [Cambridge University Press, 1989]
82.
Peter Keating The Prevailing Sound of the Age
The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel: 1875 - 1914 pp.241-284 [London, Secker and Warburg, 1989]
83.
Astradur Eysteinsson The Making of Modernist Paradigms
The Concept of Modernism pp. 8 - 49 [Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press, 1990]
84.
Judith Ryan The New Psychologies
The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism pp. 6 - 22 [Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 1991]
Volume 5: 1992-2001 85.
Randall Stevenson Value
Modernist Fiction: An Introduction pp.201-224 [London, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992]
86.
John Carey Natural Aristocrats
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880 - 1939 pp.71- 92 [London, Faber & Faber, 1992]
87.
Michael North Against the Standard: Linguistic Imitation, Racial Masquerade, and the Modernist Rebellion
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and Twentieth Century Literature pp.3 - 34 [Oxford & New York, Oxford University Press, 1994]
88.
Jane Eldridge Miller The Crisis of 1895: Realism and the Feminization of Fiction
Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel pp.10 - 38 [London, Virago, 1993]
89.
Walter Benn Michaels Land of the Kike: Home of the Wop
Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism pp.1- 16 [Durham, N.C., and London, Duke University Press, 1995]
90.
Jayne E. Marek Reader Critics: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review
Women Editing Modernism: 'Little' Magazines & Literary History pp. 60 - 100 [Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1995]
91.
Peter Nicholls At a Tangent: Other Modernisms
Modernisms: A Literary Guide pp.193 - 222 [London, Macmillan, 1995]
92.
Rita Felski Modernity and Feminism
The Gender of Modernity pp. 11-29 [Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1995]
93.
Christopher M. Mott The Art of Self-Promotion; or, Which Self to Sell? The Proliferation and Disintegration of the Harlem Renaissance, Dettmar, Kevin J.H., and Stephen Watt, Eds.
Marketing Modernisms: Self Promotion, Canonization, Rereading pp. 253 - 274 [Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1996]
94.
Lisa Rado The Case for Cultural/ Gender/ Modernist Studies, Rado, ed.
Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach 3 - 14 [New York & London, Garland, 1997]
95.
Sanford Schwartz The Postmodernity of Modernism, Witemeyer, Hugh, ed.
The Future of Modernism pp. 9 - 31 [Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1997]
96.
Sally Ledger The New Woman, Modernism and Mass Culture
The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the fin de siècle pp.177 - 198 [Manchester University Press, 1997]
97.
Tim Armstrong Prosthetic Modernism
Modernism, Technology and the Body: a Cultural Study pp.77-105 [Cambridge University Press, 1998]
98.
Patrick Williams 'Simultaneous Uncontemporaneities': Theorising Modernism and Empire, Booth, Howard J. and Nigel Rigby, eds.
Modernism and Empire pp.13 - 38 [Manchester University Press, 2000]
99.
Mark S. Morrison The Myth of the Whole and Ford's English Review: Edwardian Monthlies, the Mercure de France, and Early British Modernism
The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905 - 1920 pp.17 - 53 [Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2001]