The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English

Brian McHale; Randall Stevenson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2006

The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English

Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748627103

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About this book

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century

This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary ‘hot spots’: Freud’s Vienna and Conrad’s Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.

The Companion:

reanimates twentieth-century literary history
gives unique insight into the literary imagination via the focus on pivotal times and places
provides an unprecedented view of literatures in English in global contexts from Berlin to Bradford, Florence to Flanders, Lagos to Liverpool, Madrid to Melbourne, and San Francisco to Stockholm
offers illuminating analyses of authors and texts from across the century
brings together expert contributors from around the world

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: On or about December 1910, London Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: The First Moderns
1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness Vassiliki Kolocotroni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings Linda Kinnahan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: ‘Everything Has Gone Well’ Randall Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero Michael North Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
II: Between the Wars
5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms – Parallax and Palimpsest Jane Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude Chris Baldick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
7. 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World Cary Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
8. 1941, London under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History Tyrus Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
III: Cold War and Empire’s Ebb
9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax Philip Mead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
10. 1955, Disneyland: ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ and the Fiction of Cold War Culture Alan Nadel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire’s Ebb and Flow Rick Rylance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: ‘Things Fall Apart’ and ‘the Empire Writes Back Patrick Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Aesthetic of Complicity R. Spargo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer Patricia Waugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
IV: Millennium Approaches
15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: ‘We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show’ John Hellmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
16. 1970, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global Ursula Heise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred Cairns Craig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
18. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire Andrew Teverson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
19. 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After Louise Bethlehem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions Joseph Tabbi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison Abdulrazak Gurnah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Coda: 11 September 2001, New York: Two Y2Ks Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 28, 2006
ISBN: 9780748627103