Modernism and the ideology of history : literature politics and the past Introduction Immaterial pleasure houses : the initial aesthetic dilemma A more dream heavy hour : medievalist and progressive beginnings Pedantry and hysteria : contemporary political problems A certain discipline : radical conservative solutions A particularly lively wheel : cyclic views emerge Our own image : the example of Asian and non Western cultures In the grip of the ... vortex : the proof of post impressionist art The cycle dance : cyclic history arrives The nightmare and beyond: the First World War and mature cyclic theories Louise Williams explores the cyclical nature of historical memory in the work of five writers: Yeats Pound Hulme Ford and Lawrence. Modernists Williams argues changed their attitude to history as a result of important conflicts within the period. This study will be essential reading for anyone interested in modernist writing; 1900 1999