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Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlantic
Engaging with recent studies of modernist journals and the historical avant-garde, Eric White investigates how modernist writers interrogated the relationship between physical places, the printed page, and national identity in the transatlantic print networks of the early twentieth century. He articulates the ways in which artist-run 'little magazines' such as Blues, The Dial, Contact, Fire!!, Others, The Little Review, Pagany, S4N, and Secession formed the crucible of transnational modernism and simultaneously 'located' its avant-gardes in specific environments.
By focusing on the collaborative networks that sprang up within and between these publications, the book delves into correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and unfinished projects to explore frequently overlooked points of contact between European and American avant-gardes. In the process, it proposes a version of localist modernism that re-inserts figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Alain Locke, Alfred Kreymborg, and Kathleen Tankersley Young back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. The book also opens new dialogic channels between the fields of literary, textual, and cultural criticism to challenge the boundaries that traditionally divide modernist literature into 'exile' and 'localist', or 'cosmopolitan' and 'regionalist', factions.
Key Features:
Provides a new account of the literary avant-gardes that questioned the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identityComplements modernist studies of American expatriatesCombines literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism to deliver a 'networked' reading of American modernism in the transatlantic contextProposes a version of 'localist modernism' that prioritises issues of geographic and textual 'location' in transnational literary studies
Contents
Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Notes on Sources; Prologue; i.i 'A Core About Which / Not a Box Inside Which Every Item': Little Magazines and the Modernist Transatlantic; i.ii Locational Poetics and Geographical Materialism; i.iii 'The Locality is the Only Universal': Distinguishing Localist Modernism; i.iv The Advance Guard Magazine; i.v Conclusion; Chapter 1: Contra Mundum: Others and the Transatlantic Village; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A New Washington Square: The Greenwich Village Nexus and the 'Marketplace-to-be', 1913-16; 1.3 American Free Verse: Ridgefield's Magazines, Imagist Print Cultures, and the Ascent of Others; 1.4 Love Songs and Rogue Traders: Others, Rogue, and Transatlantic New York; 1.5 'Native by Influence If Not by Species': Others and American (Market) Places; 1.6 The 'Competitive Number' and the Limits of 'Otherness'; 1.7 Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Vortex of the Page: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis and the Modernist Problem of Place; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound's Journey from Image to Vortex; 2.3 The Other's Vortex: William Carlos Williams's Transatlantic Backgrounds; 2.4 'The Crowd Master': Blast and Wyndham Lewis's Urban Spaces; 2.5 Conclusion: Transatlantic Vorticism; Chapter 3: 'Backgrounds and Extensions': The Ascent of Localist Modernism; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 'Literary Americanism': The Seven Arts and the New Regionalism; 3.3 Local Alternatives: The Soil and the 'End' of Others; 3.4 The Afterlives of Others; 3.5 The Edges of America: Localist Poetics in Contact; 3.6 'The Impact of Experience'; 3.7 Conclusion: 'Broken By the Contact'; Chapter 4: Location, Location, Location: America, Relativity, and 'the New Science of Advertising'; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Hook, Line, and Sinker: '25¢ = Advertising Number'; 4.3 'Don't Imagine That I Think Economics Interesting': Ezra Pound and the Actual World; 4.4 'St. Francis Einstein' in the 'Sweet Land of Liberty'; 4.5 'Jazz Opera Americano': American Identity Abroad; 4.6 Conclusion: 'But if it Ends/The Start is Begun'; Chapter 5: Secessions and Symposia: American Identity and Transatlantic Colour Lines in Modernist Magazines; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Closed Circuits and Missed Contacts: American Identities in Secession; 5.3 'Declension from Unanimity': S4N and Unanimisme; 5.4 The New Negro Renaissance and the 'Crucible' of Harlem; 5.5 Railroaded: The Spatial Poetics of Fire!!; 5.6 Conclusion; Chapter 6: New Localism, Late Modernism, and America's Unfinished Spaces; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Localist and Dadaist Legacies, 1924 to 1928; 6.3 The Atlantic Canon: the transatlantic review and The Exile; 6.4 Blues and the Margins of Modernity; 6.5 The Voyage to Pagany and the Rebirth of Localism; 6.6 'Hand to Mouth, Eye to Brain Existence': A Return to Contact; Epilogue.
