Modernism A Sourcebook [Paperback]

A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature.?Documents are supported by substantial editorial material drawing connections to the major Modernist texts, and a full introduction outlining the key events, social and political movements, and cultural issues of the time.This Sourcebook provides a substantial anthology of documents for contextualising texts from the Modernist period of Anglo-American literature.? The documents are supported by substantial editorial, including an authoritative introduction which outlines key historical events, movements, and literary and cultural issues of the time.?
FULL CONTENTS- INTRODUCTION.- TIMELINE- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF MAJOR MODERNIST TEXTS.- SECTION ONE: KEY HISTORICAL EVENTS.- Introduction- WORLD WAR ONE- Editorial on the Military Service Bill, which brought universal conscription to the UK, The Daily News and Leader, Thursday, January 6, 1916.- Documents relating to the first day of the Battle of the Somme.- The U.S. enters the War. IRISH RISING, EASTER 1916. SECTION TWO: SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND CLASS- Introduction- 1. ?mile Durkheim, The Division of Labour.- 2. Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.- 3. A.R. Orage, 'Towards Socialism V. The Meaning of Civilisation'.- 4. L.T. Hobhouse, Liberalism.- 5. Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence.- 6. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace.- 7. John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy.- 8. Charles F. G. Masterman, England After War.- 9. C.H. Douglas, Social Credit.- SECTION THREE: GENDER AND SEXUALITY- Introduction- 1. Otto Weininger, Sex and Character.- 2. Two articles from The Suffragette:- a) Christabel Pankhurst,'The Women's Insurrection'.- b) Sylvia Pankhurst, 'They Tortured Me'.- 3. Two articles from The Woman's Dreadnought:- a) Ennis Richmond, 'What the War Means to Us'.- b) Sylvia Pankhurst, 'The War Cure'.- 4. Alice Stolƒ%