ABSTRACT

One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.

Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of methodological approaches and reveal the reach of this topic into every corner of modernist scholarship. From Imagist poetry and the Orient to teashops and modernism in London, or from mapping and belonging in James Joyce or Joseph Conrad to the space of new media artists, this remarkable volume offers fresh, invigorating research that ranges across the field of modernism. It also serves to identify the many exciting new directions that future studies may take.

With groundbreaking essays from an international team of highly-regarded scholars, Geographies of Modernism is an important step forward in literary and cultural studies.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

ByPETER BROOKER, ANDREW THACKER

chapter 1|13 pages

Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world

ByANDREAS HUYSSEN

chapter 2|12 pages

Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia

ByREBECCA BEASLEY

chapter 5|11 pages

Spatial stories: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce

ByROBERT HAMPSON

chapter 7|10 pages

‘A Savage from the Cannibal islands’: Jean Rhys and London

ByANNA SNAITH

chapter 8|13 pages

Voyages by teashop: an urban geography of modernism

BySCOTT MCCRACKEN

chapter 11|10 pages

Memory, geography, identity: African writing and modernity

ByTIM WOODS

chapter 12|10 pages

‘Architecture or revolution’? Le Corbusier and Wyndham Lewis

ByANDRZEJ GASIOREK

chapter 14|12 pages

Flannery

ByJAMES DONALD