A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922

Abstract

Part I. Progenitors: 1. Consciousness: The modernist narrator on the Victorian sailing ship: Arnold, Huxley, Pater: toward a small world and a large self 2. Authority: Arnold and Babbitt: the best self and the new humanism: Conrad: physis and psyche Part II. Provocation, 1908-1914: 3. Dating Hulme/parsing modernism 4. Ford: the passing of great figures: The Victorian sage in retirement: Little moderns 5. Egoists and imagists: The Ego and His Own: Pound/Upward: Poets rampant 6. Hulme: the progress of reaction: The classical phase: Husserl, Frege, Moore: The making of an anti-humanist 7. Symbol, impression, image, vortex: The problem with Imagism: Impressionism and the prose tradition: In search of a primary pigment Part III. Conclusion: 8. The war among the moderns: The avant-garde in retreat: Pound and Eliot, a counter-current 9. The Waste Land: Speakers and ghosts: The theory of points of view: The painful task of unifying: Myth, tradition, classicism Epilogue. The editor and the loathed disturber.