Great War modernisms and The new age magazine
Subtitle: historicizing modernism
By: Paul Jackson
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781441180087; 9781441127815
Subjects: New age (London, England); Little magazines; Publishing; Literature publishing; Intellectual life; Periodicals; Modernism (Literature); Great Britain; Press and politics; World War, 1914-1918; History; Literature and the war
Description: "The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's study engages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon,but inherently linked to politics and philosophy. By placing the writing of a canonical modernist, Wyndham Lewis, against a figure usually excluded from the modernist canon, H.G. Wells, Jackson examines further a wartime modernism that embraced socialist and political views. This reinterpretation of modernism provides a historicised understanding of the politicised hopes of artists promoting revolutionary forms of cultural renewal. Considering modernist writers' relationship between politics,philosophy and aesthetics in the context of total war Jackson encourages new cultural-historical definitions of modernism. In addition this study provides the first close analysis of cultural contributions from a leading wartime Little Magazine, tracing the radical modernist debates that developed in its pages."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Great War modernisms; title: A. R. Orage and modernist publicism in the era of the First World War; title: War, the new age and guild socialism's political modernism; title: The new age's radical intelligentsia and modernism; title: Wyndham Lewis's modernist aesthetics; title: H. G. Wells and the First World War; title: Conclusion.