Further Reading
MODERNIST CULTURES: FURTHER READING
Starred texts may be particularly helpful.
Introductions/ Guides to the Field of Study
Ayers, David. Modernism: A Short Introduction
Bradshaw, David. A Concise Companion to Modernism
*---------------------and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture
Conrad, Peter. Modern Times, Modern Places
*Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction
Brain McHale (ed) Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Literatures in English.
*Rainey, Lawrence. Modernism: An Anthology
*Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms
*Lewis, Pericles. The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
*Armstrong, Tim. Modernism: A Cultural History
*Levenson, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism
*Schiach, Morag (ed) The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
**Williams, Raymond. The Politics of Modernism. See in particular 'The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism'.
Anthologies and Sourcebooks
*Kolokotroni, Vassiliki et al. (eds) Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents
Whitworth, Michael. Modernism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism, 2008)
Matthews, Steven (ed). Modernism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave, 2008)
Walz, Robin. Modernism (Pearson, 2008)
**Rainey, Lawrence. Modernism: An Anthology (Blackwell)
Intellectual and Social Context
*Berman, Marshall. All that is Solid Melts into Air: the Experience of Modernity
Bloom, Clive (ed) Literature and Culture in Modern Britain, Vol.1 (1900-1929)
**Brooker, Peter. Modernism/Postmodernism. See in particular extracts by Benjamin, Berman and Williams (chapters 2, 5, 6).
Levenson, Michael. A Genealogy of Modernism
*North, Michael. Reading 1922
Potter, Rachel. Modernism and Democracy
Poplawski, Paul (ed) English Literature in Context, Ch.6
Miller, Tyrus. 'The avant-garde, bohemia and mainstream culture' in Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls (eds) The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Literature (CUP, 2004), 100-116.
Wilkinson, Sarah. 'The Concept of the State 1880-1939' in David Bradshaw (ed) A Concise Companion to Modernism, pp. 179-199.
Robert Colls and Phillip Dodd (eds.), Englishness: Politics and Culture 1880-1920 (Croom Helm, 1986)
Modernism, Edwardians, Empire
*Trodd, Anthea. A Reader's Guide to Edwardian Literature
Hunter, Jefferson. Edwardian Fiction
Hynes, Samuel. The Edwardian Turn of Mind
Booth, Howard and Nigel Rigby (eds) Modernism and Empire
London, Bette. The Appropriated Voice: Narrative Authority in Conrad, Forster and Woolf
Modernism and the Great War
Smith, Angela K. The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism and the First World War
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory
Hynes, Samuel. War Imagined: the First World War in English Culture
Ouditt, Sharon. Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Ideology and Identity in the First World war
Sherry, Vincent. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
------------------. Modernism and the First World War
Booth, Allyson. Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Spaces between Modernism and the First World War
Primitivism
Barkan, Elazar and Ronald Bush (eds) Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism
North, Michael. The Dialect of Modernism
Gender
Scott, Bonnie Kime (ed) The Gender of Modernism
Parsons, Deborah. Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity
Pykett, Lyn. Engendering Fictions: the English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century
Technology and Space
Armstrong, Tim. Modernism, Technology and the Body
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
Thacker, Andrew. Moving Through Modernity
Schivelbush, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey
Specialist Journals:
Modernism/Modernity
Modern Fiction Studies
Twentieth-Century Literature
Joyce’s Ulysses: Basic Secondary Reading
i. Annotations:
Don Gifford, Ulysses Annotated, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1988)
**Johnson, Jeri (ed) Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics).
**Kiberd, Declan. Ulysses: Annotated Students’ Edition (Penguin).
ii. Major Critical Views:
Although they have long been superseded by many other works, three early studies are key basic reading:
Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses (OUP, 1989; 1st ed 1934)
Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce’s Ulysses (NY: Vintage, 1958; 1st ed, 1930).
Wilson, Edmund. Axel’s Castle: A study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
iii. Useful recent collections of essays:
*Attridge, Derek (ed) The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
*Attridge, Derek. James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Casebook
iv. Introductory studies:
Goldberg, S.L. The Classical Temper (Chatto, 1961)
*Hugh Kenner, Ulysses (Lond: Allen & Unwin, 1980, rev edn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987)
Vincent Sherry, James Joyce: Ulysses (Landmarks of World Literature, 1994, rev. ed 2004)
Attridge, Derek. How to Read Joyce (Granta, 2007)
v. Biography:
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (OUP, 1983; 1st edn, 1959)
vi. Selected criticism:
Attridge, Derek and Marjorie Howes (eds) Semicolonial Joyce (CUP, 2000
Duffy, Enda. The Subaltern Ulysses (U Minnesota P, 1984)
Lawrence, Karen. The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses (1981)
Nolan, Emer. James Joyce and Nationalism (Routledge)
Cheng, Vincent. Joyce, Race and Empire (CUP, 1995)
vii. Other:
Joyce, James. Occasional, Critical and Political writing, ed. K. Barry (OUP, 2000)
Lyons, F.S. Ireland since the Famine