Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern

Janet Lyon

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Manifestoes

Provocations of the Modern

Janet Lyon

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728358

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For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the...

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Janet Lyon is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies and Co-director of the Disability Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University.

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Stephen Watt, Indiana University:

This is a wonderful book. Anyone interested in revolutions—aesthetic, political, sexual—and the way they are represented by their most ardent proponents will want to read Janet Lyon's Manifestoes.

Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin–Madison:

Janet Lyon's genre study of manifestoes and modernity has an impressively ambitious reach—from the Diggers and Levellers to the feminist SCUM and cyborgianism. She posits telling conjunctures between aesthetics and politics, avant-gardism and feminism, in such historical moments as Republican France, literary modernism, and second-wave feminism. The result is a fresh, new reading of manifestoes as a revolutionary form of discourse interwoven with the history of feminism and inseparable from the formation of the modern subject in the West.

Rita Felski, University of Virginia:

A major, ground-breaking work of scholarship regarding the centrality of the manifesto to the political and aesthetic contradictions of modernity. From its opening pages, the book reveals itself as a lucid, confident and carefully argued piece of work, written with real elegance and elan. Lyon succeeds admirably in showing the connections between issues that have often been treated in isolation, such as revolutionary rhetoric, aesthetic theory, feminism, and the public sphere.

Lyon offers an innovative, far-ranging study... A complex, lucid, and nuanced study of the manifesto as the signature genre of aesthetic and political militancy, this volume will be indispensible to all college and university collections.

Brilliantly nuanced and historically rich... Janet Lyon's acute weaving of modernist history, manifestic dissent, avant-garde aesthetics, and feminist struggle is gracefully learned, supple, and exciting. We are left with an entirely fresh sense of the extent to which the public spheres of modernity permitted their linguistic and political freedoms.

This book provides compelling histories and analysis for scholars of media and social movements to mine for inspiration.

This book is suggestive in its argument and expansive in its topics... Recommended for all readers who are interested in the history of political modernism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Polemics in the Modern Vein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Manifestoes and Public Spheres: Probing Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Manifestoes and Revolutionary Discourse: Women in the Cross Fire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. Militant Allies, Strange Bedfellows: Suffragettes and Vorticists before the War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
4. Modernists and Gatekeeping Manifestoes: Pound, Loy, and Modern Sanctions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
5. A Second-Wave Problematic: How to Be a Radical Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Conclusion: Now and Again Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501728358