A concise companion to modernism / edited by David Bradshaw. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003. - xxiv, 280 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-265) and index.

Introduction / The Life Sciences: "Everybody nowadays talks about evolution" / Eugenics: "They should certainly be killed" / Nietzscheanism: "The Superman and the all-too-human" / Anthropology: "The latest form of evening entertainment" / Bergsonism: "Time out of mind" / Psychoanalysis in Britain: "The rituals of destruction" / Language: "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" / Technology: "Multiplied man" / The Concept of the State 1880-1939: "The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well" / Physics: "A strange footprint" / Modernist Publishing: "Nomads and mapmakers" / Reading: "'Mind hungers' common and uncommon" / David Bradshaw -- Angelique Richardson -- David Bradshaw -- Michael Bell -- Jeremy MacClancy -- Mary Ann Gillies -- Stephen Frosh -- April McMahon -- Tim Armstrong -- Sarah Wilkinson -- Michael H. Whitworth -- Peter D. McDonald -- Toddy Avery and Patrick Brantlinger. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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English literature--History and criticism
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain

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