Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 [Hardcover]

Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which utopianism plays a defining role prior to, during and immediately after the First World War.Acknowledgements Introduction: Maps Worth Glancing At Meliorism and Edwardian Modernity Questions of Perfectibility Forlorn Hopes and The English Review Magnetic Cities and Simple Lives Individualism, Happiness, and Labour Vorticism and the Limits of BLAST Satire, Impressionism, and War Idealisms and Contingencies Conclusion Bibliography Index

Modernist Nowheres addresses an enduring and wide-ranging set of canonical modernist writers in Conrad, Lewis, Lawrence, Wells and Ford, and delves into the archives to mobilize less well-known material to support the argument. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to this burgeoning branch of modernist studies. - Andrew Frayn, Ford Madox Ford Society newsletter

NATHAN WADDELL is a Teaching Fellow at The University of Birmingham, England, UK. He is the author of Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge Scholars, 2009); co-editor of Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (Ashgate, 2011); and the author of articles and chapters on literary modernist coteries and communities, Buchan, Lewis, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, and Lewis and Evelyn Waugh.