CiNii Books - The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century literatures in English

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century. This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001. The Companion * reanimates twentieth-century literary history * gives unique insight into the literary imagination via the focus on pivotal times and places * provides an unprecedented view of literatures in English in global contexts from Berlin to Bradford, Florence to Flanders, Lagos to Liverpool, Madrid to Melbourne, and San Francisco to Stockholm * offers illuminating analyses of authors and texts from across the century * brings together expert contributors from around the world.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction
Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
Section I. The First Moderns
Chapter One. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness
Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Chapter Two. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings
Linda Kinnahan
Chapter Three. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well'
Randall Stevenson
Chapter Four. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero.
Michael North
Section II. Between the Wars
Chapter Five. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest
Jane Goldman
Chapter Six. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude
Chris Baldick
Chapter Seven: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World
Cary Nelson
Chapter Eight. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History
Tyrus Miller
Section III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb
Chapter Nine. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax
Philip Mead
Chapter Ten. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture
Alan Nadel
Chapter Eleven. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow
Rick Rylance
Chapter Twelve. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back'
Patrick Williams
Chapter Thirteen. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity
R. Clifton Spargo
Chapter Fourteen. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer
Patricia Waugh
Section IV. Millennium Approaches
Chapter Fifteen. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show'
John Hellmann
Chapter Sixteen. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global
Ursula K. Heise
Chapter Seventeen. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred
Cairns Craig
Chapter Eighteen. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire
Andrew Teverson
Chapter Nineteen. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After
Louise Bethlehem
Chapter Twenty. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions
Joseph Tabbi
Chapter Twenty-One. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Coda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's
Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
Notes on Contributors
Index.List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On or about December 1910, London: Introduction
Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
Section I. The First Moderns
Chapter One. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness
Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Chapter Two. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence and New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings
Linda Kinnahan
Chapter Three. 1916, Flanders, London and Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well'
Randall Stevenson
Chapter Four. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero.
Michael North
Section II. Between the Wars
Chapter Five. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest
Jane Goldman
Chapter Six. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude
Chris Baldick
Chapter Seven: 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World
Cary Nelson
Chapter Eight. 1941, London Under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History
Tyrus Miller
Section III. Cold War and Empire's Ebb
Chapter Nine. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax
Philip Mead
Chapter Ten. May, 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture
Alan Nadel
Chapter Eleven. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow
Rick Rylance
Chapter Twelve. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'The Empire Writes Back'
Patrick Williams
Chapter Thirteen. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Ethic of Complicity
R. Clifton Spargo
Chapter Fourteen. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer
Patricia Waugh
Section IV. Millennium Approaches
Chapter Fifteen. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco and Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show'
John Hellmann
Chapter Sixteen. 1973, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global
Ursula K. Heise
Chapter Seventeen. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred
Cairns Craig
Chapter Eighteen. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire
Andrew Teverson
Chapter Nineteen. February 11th 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After
Louise Bethlehem
Chapter Twenty. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions
Joseph Tabbi
Chapter Twenty-One. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Coda: September 11, 2001, New York: Two Y2K's
Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
Notes on Contributors
Index.

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