ABSTRACT
The Political Unconscious (1981) was mostly concerned with nineteenth-century literary forms such as ‘realism’. Jameson is also particularly well known for his analyses of the late twentieth-century cultural forms known as ‘postmodernism’, which are dealt with in the following chapter. This chapter seeks to link these two categories, by looking at the various work Jameson has done on the literary period between the nineteenth and the later twentieth centuries, the movement known as modernism mat flourished particularly in the early years of this century. It focuses in part on Fables of Aggression (1979), his study of the modernist Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), but it is also a chapter that seeks to draw together some of the major points of Jameson’s work up to the early 1980s.
