Outside Modernism presents eleven original essays which re-evaluate the range of English novels written between 1900 and 1930, assigned by critics to a space outside modernism. Drawing on critical perspectives as various as postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, queer theory and cultural theory, these essays argue for a new and inclusive context for understanding the development of English fiction in this period. This collection is the result of a transatlantic intellectual partnership which offers a stimulating interrogation of the cultural work performed by literary modernism.
Preface Notes on the Contributors PART I: MODERN/MODERNIST Eclipsed by Modernism; N.L.Paxton Transforming the Victorian; L.Hapgood PART II: HISTORY/TIME Continuity and Rupture in English Novels of the First World War; F.Manning, J.Rignall& R.H.Mottram G.K.Chesterton and the Terrorist Outside Modernism; R.Caserio PART III: GENDER/SEXUALITY Engendering Modernism: The Vernacular Modernism of Radclyffe Hall; R.Dellamora Writing Around Modernism; M.Sinclair, L.Pykett& R.West Delimiting Modernism and the Literary Field: D.H.Lawrence and The Lost Gir l; A.Ardis PART IV: GEOGRAPHY/SPACE Pan and the Open Road: Critical Paganism in R.L. Stevenson, K.Grahame, E.Thomas and E.M.Forster; W.Greenslade The Unwritten Suburb: Defining Spaces in John Galsworthy's The Man of Property; L.Hapgood Reconsidering Colonial Romance: Maud Diver and the 'Ethnographic Real'; N.L.Paxton PART V: EPILOGUE From Realism to Radicalism; P.Hamilton, H.Green, J.Lucas& S.T.Warner Bibliography Index
