Ebook: 1913: The Cradle of Modernism

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913.

• Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels
  
• Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky
  
• Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way

Content:
Chapter 1 The New in the Arts (pages 18–45):
Chapter 2 Collective Agencies (pages 46–71):
Chapter 3 Everyday Life and the New Episteme (pages 72–95):
Chapter 4 Learning to be Modern in 1913 (pages 96–117):
Chapter 5 Global Culture and the Invention of the Other (pages 118–140):
Chapter 6 The Splintered Subject of Modernism (pages 141–163):
Chapter 7 At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism (pages 164–184):
Chapter 8 Modernism and the End of Nostalgia (pages 185–207):