Maude Ulrika - The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature

The Bloomsbury Companion to
Modernist Literature

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The Bloomsbury Companion to
Modernist Literature

Edited by

Ulrika Maude and Mark Nixon

The editors wish to thank the contributors for their good grace, their patience and their superb, insightful chapters. Warm thanks are also due to our press editor, David Avital, and Assistant Editor, Clara Herberg, who have offered unstinting support throughout the inception of this collection. Ulrika Maude would like to acknowledge that part of the work for this volume was undertaken during a one-year research fellowship (20152016) at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland. She wishes to thank Sari Kivist, Director of HCAS at the time; Sami Pihlstrm, the former Director; co-Fellows Leszek Koczanowicz and Josephine Hoegaerts; and artists Pivi Maunu and Ilari Khnen for many happy hours spent on Harakka Island and other favourite haunts in Helsinki. She would also like to thank Svetlana Kirichenko and Maija Vtminen for research assistance at the Collegium. Her deepest gratitude goes to Andrew Bennett for his support, intelligence and wit.

Tim Armstrongs research interests include modernism and modernity, American literature and culture, literature and technology, and the poetry of Thomas Hardy. His publications include The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology and Pain in American Literature (Cambridge, 2012), Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (Cambridge, 1998) and Modernism: A Cultural History (Polity, 2005), as well as various edited collections. He has edited Poems of Thomas Hardy (Longman, 1993) and published a study of Hardys poetry, Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (Palgrave, 2000). He is general editor of the EUP series, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture, and is currently working on a project on modernist localism and deconstruction, Micromodernism.

Michael Bell is Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. He has written mainly on literary and philosophical themes from the European Enlightenment to modernity. His book-length publications include Primitivism (1973), The Sentiment of Reality: Truth of Feeling in the European Novel (1983), F. R. Leavis (1988), D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being (1992), Gabriel Garca Mrquez: Solitude and Solidarity (1994), Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century (1997), Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling (2001), Open Secrets: Literature, Education and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee (Oxford, 2007) and The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists (ed.) (Cambridge, 2012).

Faith Binckes is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Bath Spa University. She is the author of Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-Garde: Reading Rhythm (Oxford, 2010), articles on periodical culture, and on modernist authors such as Katherine Mansfield and Wyndham Lewis. Her monograph on the Irish writer Hannah Lynch, written with Dr Kathryn Laing, is in preparation. She is currently editing, with Dr Carey Snyder, a volume on women, periodicals and the modernist period. She will edit the volume of Wyndham Lewiss post-1930 art writing for the OUP edition of Lewiss Collected Works.

Conor Carville is Associate Professor of English at Reading University. His book on Irish cultural theory, The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity, was published by Manchester University Press in 2012. Samuel Beckett and the Visual was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Other recent publications include essays on Becketts early poetry and on his novels Watt and Murphy. He is currently carrying out research in the Northern Irish poetry archives at Emory University and the Arts Council Northern Ireland Archives, as part of his British Academyfunded Room to Rhyme project. His book of poems, Harms Way (2013), was published by Dedalus Press.

Jana Funke is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities and a Wellcome Trust Investigator based in the English Department at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on modernist literature and culture, the history of sexuality, sexual science and medicine, and feminist studies and queer theory. Books include The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (Manchester, 2016), and the co-edited volumes Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (with Ben Davies; Palgrave, 2011) and Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts (with Jen Grove; Palgrave, 2018).

Emily Hayman is Professor of Literature at Bard Early College in Baltimore. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is currently revising a manuscript on British modernism and multilingualism.

Alexander Howard teaches modern and contemporary literature at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism (2017). His recent work has appeared in Modernism/Modernity, Affirmations: Of the Modern and the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. His research is also forthcoming in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities.

Pericles Lewis is Professor of Comparative Literature, Vice President for Global Strategy, and Deputy Provost for International Affairs at Yale University. He is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century literature, including The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (2007).

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, with a particular focus on modernism. Her work on film and literature includes her monographs Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Cambridge, 2014) and The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (Oxford, 2007), as well as essays on topics including early film theory, documentary cinema, and literature and film in the 1930s. Her current research projects include collaborative work on scholarly editions of Dorothy Richardson and on Virginia Woolfs short fiction, and a study of the concept of rhythm in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a range of disciplinary contexts.

Kirsty Martin is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter. Her first book, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She is currently writing about literature and happiness.

Ulrika Maude is Reader in Modernism and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Beckett, Technology and the Body (Cambridge, 2009) and Samuel Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge, 2019). She is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge, 2015), Beckett and Phenomenology