The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English / / Brian McHale, Randall Stevenson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: McHale, Brian,; Stevenson, Randall,
• MitwirkendeR: Baldick, Chris,; Bethlehem, Louise,; Craig, Cairns,; Goldman, Jane,; Gurnah, Abdulrazak,; Heise, Ursula,; Hellmann, John,; Kinnahan, Linda,; Kolocotroni, Vassiliki,; McHale, Brian,; Mead, Philip,; Miller, Tyrus,; Nadel, Alan,; Nelson, Cary,; North, Michael,; Rylance, Rick,; Spargo, R.,; Stevenson, Randall,; Tabbi, Joseph,; Teverson, Andrew,; Waugh, Patricia,; Williams, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: On or about December 1910, London --; I: The First Moderns --; 1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness --; 2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings --; 3. 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: ‘Everything Has Gone Well’ --; 4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero --; II: Between the Wars --; 5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms – Parallax and Palimpsest --; 6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude --; 7. 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World --; 8. 1941, London under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History --; III: Cold War and Empire’s Ebb --; 9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax --; 10. 1955, Disneyland: ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ and the Fiction of Cold War Culture --; 11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire’s Ebb and Flow --; 12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: ‘Things Fall Apart’ and ‘the Empire Writes Back --; 13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Aesthetic of Complicity --; 14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer --; IV: Millennium Approaches --; 15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: ‘We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show’ --; 16. 1970, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global --; 17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred --; 18. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire --; 19. 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After --; 20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions --; 21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison --; Coda: 11 September 2001, New York: Two Y2Ks --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748627103; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748627103?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brian McHale, Randall Stevenson.

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth centuryThis companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary ‘hot spots’: Freud’s Vienna and Conrad’s Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.The Companion:reanimates twentieth-century literary historygives unique insight into the literary imagination via the focus on pivotal times and placesprovides an unprecedented view of literatures in English in global contexts from Berlin to Bradford, Florence to Flanders, Lagos to Liverpool, Madrid to Melbourne, and San Francisco to Stockholmoffers illuminating analyses of authors and texts from across the centurybrings together expert contributors from around the world