Comentale Edward P. - T.E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism

T. E. HULME AND THE QUESTION OF MODERNISM

Edited by

EDWARD P. COMENTALE
Indiana UniversityBloomington, USA

ANDRZEJ GASIOREK
University of Birmingham, UK

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing

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T. E. Hulme and the question of modernism

1.Hulme, T. E. (Thomas Ernest), 18831917 Criticism and interpretation 2.English
literature 20th century History and criticism 3.Modernism (Literature) Great
Britain

I.Comentale, Edward P. II.Gasiorek, Andrzej, 1960

828.9'1209

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T. E. Hulme and the question of modernism / edited by Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej
Gasiorek.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7546-4088-4 (alk. paper)

1. Hulme, T. E. (Thomas Ernest), 18831917. 2. Modernism (Aesthetics) 3. Modernism
(Art) 4. Modernism (Literature) 5. Philosophy, Modern. I. Title: Thomas Ernest Hulme
and the question of modernism. II. Comentale, Edward P. III. Gasiorek, Andrzej, 1960

B1646.H84T4 2006

192-dc22

2005034559

ISBN: 978-0-754-64088-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-61174-7 (ebk)

On the Significance of a Hulmean Modernism

Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek

Paul Edwards

Andrew Thacker

Rebecca Beasley

Alan Munton

Helen Carr

Jesse Matz

Lee Garver

Andrzej Gasiorek

Todd Avery

C. D. Blanton

Edward P. Comentale

Todd Avery is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. He has published articles on Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and modernist ethics, and he is currently completing a book on literary modernism and early British radio.

Rebecca Beasley is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she teaches modernist literature. Her articles on modernism and the visual arts have appeared in American Literature, New Formations and Paideuma, and she has recently completed a book on Ezra Pound and visual culture. A short book on the poetics of Eliot, Pound and Hulme is forthcoming in Routledges Critical Thinkers series.

C. D. Blanton is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. He has written on Robert Browning, T. S. Eliot, poetic translation, regionalism in British poetry, and the problem of nominalism in modernist aesthetics. He is currently working on Aftereffects, an analysis of late modernism in British poetry, and Untimely Histories, a study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century forms of poetic historiography.

Helen Carr is Professor of English at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is a co-editor of the journal Women: A Cultural Review, and her publications include Inventing the American Primitive: Politics, Gender and the Representation of Native American Literary Traditions (Cork University Press/New York University Press, 1996) and Jean Rhys (Northcote House/British Council, 1996). Her group biography of the imagist poets The Verse Revolutionaries is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape.

Edward P. Comentale is an Associate Professor of Literature at Indiana University. His teaching and research focus on modernism, the avant-garde, and twentieth-century popular culture. He is the author of Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde (Cambridge, 2004) and the co-editor of Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007 (Indiana, 2005).

Paul Edwards is Professor of English and History of Art at Bath Spa University. He has written extensively on Wyndham Lewis and early modernism, and he is the author of Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer (Yale University Press, 2000).

Lee Garver is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Butler University. He has published on Katherine Mansfield and written introductions to volumes eight and nineteen of The Modernist Journals Project online edition of the New Age. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Recovering Radical Modernism: The New Age and Edwardian Cultural Conflict.

Andrzej Gasiorek is a Reader in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Post-War British Fiction: Realism and After (Edward Arnold, 1995); Wyndham Lewis and Modernism (Northcote House, 2004); and J. G. Ballard (Manchester University Press, 2005). He is co-editor of the electronic journal Modernist Cultures (www.modernist.bham.ac.uk).

Jesse Matz is Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College. He is author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction (Blackwell, 2004). He is currently at work on two projects: a book on the cultural uses of narrative temporality and a book on the legacies of Impressionism in contemporary culture.

Alan Munton is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth. His research interests include European Modernism, the literature and politics of the 1930s, and contemporary poetry and film. He has recently published articles on Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, and Ken Loach, and he is the author of English Fiction of the Second World War London (Faber, 1989). He is editor of the Wyndham Lewis Annual.

Andrew Thacker is Senior Research Fellow in the School of English, De Montfort University, Leicester. His most recent publications are Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (Manchester University Press, 2003) and Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces (Routledge, 2005). He is currently completing a short book on The Imagist Poets, and working upon a larger project on Modernist Magazines.

Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek

One Sunday morning I had gone to Flemings in Oxford Street for a meal. This was a different kind of establishment from the new-fangled Flemings of today. It had retained quite a Victorian atmosphere, and so had most of the customers, whose appearance suggested that they were food-faddists or Plymouth Brethren or Jehovah Witnesses or something else a trifle odd. On this particular occasion a burly young man with a massive, florid countenance came and sat down opposite me. At first glance I associated him with the open air and rural pursuits. Yes, probably a young gentlemanly farmer spending the weekend in town. He gave his order and then, to my astonishment, unfolded the