Title Great War modernisms and the new age magazine / Paul Jackson

Published London ; New York : Continuum, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (184 pages) Series Historicizing modernism Historicizing modernism. Contents Introduction -- Great War modernisms -- A.R. Orage and modernist publicism in the era of the First World War -- War, the new age and guild socialism's political modernism -- The new age's radical intelligentsia and modernism -- Wyndham Lewis's modernist aesthetics -- H.G. Wells and the First World War -- Conclusion Summary The literary magazine The New Age broughttogether a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the FirstWorld War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. Byclosely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's studyengages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists tomodernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as anaesthetic phenomenon, but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against afigure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson examinesfurther a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views. Thisreinterpretation of modernism provides a historicised understanding of thepoliticised hopes of artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal. Considering modernist writers' relationship between politics, philosophy andaesthetics in the context of total war Jackson encourages newcultural-historical definitions of modernism. In addition this study providesthe first close analysis of cultural contributions from a leading wartimeLittle Magazine, tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in itspages Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT New age (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95117133 New age (London, England) fast Subject Little magazines -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain REFERENCE -- Yearbooks & Annuals. Intellectual life Literature publishing Little magazines Modernism (Literature) Periodicals -- Publishing Press and politics War and literature SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441127815 144112781X 9781283735841 1283735849 9781441138026 1441138021

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