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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English

Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson

Abstract

This book presents a new literary history of the twentieth century, setting a new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, it 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.

Keywords: literary history, literary-historical analysis, national literatures, Freud, Conrad, Somme, Dublin, London, Harlem, Berlin

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2006 Print ISBN-13: 9780748620111
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748620111.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Brian McHale, author

Randall Stevenson, author

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On or about December 1910, London

I: The First Moderns

Chapter 1 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness

Chapter 2 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings

Chapter 3 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: ‘Everything Has Gone Well’

Chapter 4 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero

II: Between the Wars

Chapter 5 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms — Parallax and Palimpsest

Chapter 6 1928, London: A Strange Interlude

Chapter 7 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World

Chapter 8 1941, London under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History

III: Cold War and Empire's Ebb

Chapter 9 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax

Chapter 10 1955, Disneyland: ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ and the Fiction of Cold War Culture

Chapter 11 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow

Chapter 12 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: ‘Things Fall Apart’ and ‘the Empire Writes Back’

Chapter 13 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Aesthetic of Complicity

Chapter 14 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer

IV: Millennium Approaches

Chapter 15 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: ‘We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show’

Chapter 16 1970, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global

Chapter 17 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred

Chapter 18 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire

Chapter 19 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After

Chapter 20 1991, The Web: Network Fictions

Chapter 21 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison

Coda: 11 September 2001, New York: Two Y2Ks

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Index