Will to Literature
David Trotter: Modernism plc, 13 May 1999
Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture
by Lawrence Rainey.
Yale, 227 pp., £16.95, January 1999,0 300 07050 0 Show More
by Lawrence Rainey.
Yale, 227 pp., £16.95, January 1999,
Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study
by Tim Armstrong.
Cambridge, 309 pp., £14.95, March 1998,0 521 59997 0 Show More
by Tim Armstrong.
Cambridge, 309 pp., £14.95, March 1998,
Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative
by Harold Segel.
Johns Hopkins, 282 pp., £30, September 1998,0 8018 5821 6 Show More
by Harold Segel.
Johns Hopkins, 282 pp., £30, September 1998,
Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production
by Douglas Mao.
Princeton, 308 pp., £32.50, November 1998,0 691 05926 8 Show More
by Douglas Mao.
Princeton, 308 pp., £32.50, November 1998,
“... Modernism must be reckoned one of the lengthiest and most strenuous campaigns ever undertaken in the name of literature. Acutely conscious at once of the burden of the past – the intimidating totality of what had already been written – and of the present’s lightness, its free and easy way with burdens, its failure to be intimidated, the Modernist did not propose to carry on as before ... ”