A Concise Companion to Modernism [Paperback]

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• Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain.
  
• Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.
  
• Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres.
  
• Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

Acknowledgments vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Chronology xi

Introduction 1
David Bradshaw

1 The Life Sciences: “Everybody nowadays talks about evolution” 6
Angelique Richardson

2 Eugenics: “They should certainly be killed” 34
David Bradshaw

3 Nietzscheanism: “The Superman and the all-too-human” 56
Michael Bell

4 Anthropology: “The latest form of evening entertainment” 75
Jeremy MacClancy

5 Bergsonism: “Time out of mind” 95
Mary Ann Gillies

6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: “The rituals of destruction” 116
Stephen Frosh

7 Language: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” 138
April McMahon

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