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Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine.

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 politic...

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Main Author: Jackson, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Subjects:
Great Britain - Intellectual life - History - 20th century.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781441127815
144112781X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Great War Modernisms
  • Sociology of modernity
  • Modernity and 'crisis consciousness' in the early twentieth century
  • Modernism's palingenetic core
  • An ideal type of modernist thought
  • Great War modernisms
  • 2 A. R. Orage and Modernist Publicism in the Era of the First World War
  • Alfred Richard Orage
  • The modern apocalypse
  • A war of ideas
  • Rebellion abroad and revolution at home
  • Revolution at home
  • Conclusions
  • 3 War, The New Age and Guild Socialism's Political Modernism
  • The roots of guild socialism
  • Ivor Brown
  • William Norman Ewer
  • Arthur Joseph Penty
  • Maurice B. Reckitt
  • George Douglass Howard Cole
  • Samuel George Hobson
  • Odon Por, guild socialism and fascism
  • Conclusions
  • 4 The New Age 's Radical Intelligentsia and Modernism
  • War fever and early responses to the confl ict
  • Major wartime contributors
  • Alternate visions for a new era
  • Postwar themes
  • Conclusions
  • 5 Wyndham Lewis and Modernist Aesthetics in Wartime
  • Lewis before Blast
  • Blast , 1914
  • Lewis and the Great War
  • The Caliph's Design and the Tyro
  • Conclusions
  • 6 H. G. Wells and the First World War
  • H. G. Wells's diagnosis of the crisis of the twentieth century
  • The war that will end war
  • War and modern religion
  • The new religion and wartime fi ction
  • War, history and the future
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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