Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond
Williams’ pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism:
Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with
frequency and urgency in ‘written modernism, ‘ tracking
cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of
change.
* Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing
cultural thought at the heart of modernism
* Goes beyond constructions of ‘plural modernisms’ to
reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a
simultaneous and interlocking mix
* Draws from a vast compilation of more than a thousand sources,
ranging from vernacular prose to experimental literary forms
* Spans the ‘long’ modernist period, from its
incipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath
* Approaches English written modernism in its own terms,
tempering explanations of modernism often derived from European
poets and painters
* Models research techniques based on digital databases and
collaborative work in the humanities
Tabella dei contenuti
Credits and Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: Unsettling Modernism x
Note on References xviii
A
Advertising 1
Atom, Atomic 6
Avant-Garde 11
B
Best Seller 15
Bigness, Smallness 20
Biography, New Biography 26
C
Common Man 34
Common Mind, Group Thinking 40
Conventional, Conventionality 45
Coterie, Bloomsbury 49
D
Democracy 56
Difficulty, Obscurity 63
E
Einstein 70
Empire, Imperialism 77
F
Fascism 85
Form, Formalism 91
G
God, Gods 99
H
Hamlet 107
Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow 111
Hygiene 119
I
Impression, Impressionism 125
International, Internationalism 129
M
Manifesto 136
Modern, Modernism 139
N
Negro, New Negro 147
P
Personality, Impersonality 155
Primitive 162
Propaganda 170
Q
Queer, Gay 177
R
Race 184
Readers, Reading 191
Reality, Realism 196
Rhythm 203
S
Sentimental, Sentimentality 210
Shock, Shell Shock 214
U
Unconscious 223
Universal 231
W
Woman, New Woman 238
Words, Language 246
Index of Modernist Authors 254
Index of Modernist Keywords 263
Circa l’autore
Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor, University of
Toronto-Scarborough and Emerita Member of the Graduate Department
of English, University of Toronto. Her publications include
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere
(2003), the Harcourt annotated edition of Virginia Woolf’s
Between the Acts (2008) and contributions to A
Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006)
and A Companion to Narrative Theory (2005).
Adam Hammond recently completed an SSHRC postdoctoral
fellowship at the University of Victoria and is currently the
Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the
University of Guelph. He is the author of Literature in the
Digital Age: A Critical Introduction (forthcoming 2015).
Alexandra Peat is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Literature and Culture, Franklin University Switzerland. She is
the author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and
Ethical Journeys (2010).
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