Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, this text shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early 20th century capitalism and how modernist fiction reconfigured capitalist mythologies along the fa…
Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T.S.…
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"In Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics, Charles Ferrall argues that the politics of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis were a response to the increasing separation of art from a society undergoing a second industrial revolution. Fascism became attractive to…
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics, and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism's key creative artists and a unique twentieth-century thinker. This book offers a scholarly comp…
Wyndham Lewis: a critical guide
The first guide to the work of Wyndham Lewis as writer, novelist, and critic. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics, and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism's key creative art…
