A Concise Companion to Modernism

Acknowledgments vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Chronology xi

Introduction 1
David Bradshaw

1 The Life Sciences: “Everybody nowadays talks about evolution” 6
Angelique Richardson

2 Eugenics: “They should certainly be killed” 34
David Bradshaw

3 Nietzscheanism: “The Superman and the all-too-human” 56
Michael Bell

4 Anthropology: “The latest form of evening entertainment” 75
Jeremy MacClancy

5 Bergsonism: “Time out of mind” 95
Mary Ann Gillies

6 Psychoanalysis in Britain: “The rituals of destruction” 116
Stephen Frosh

7 Language: “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” 138
April McMahon

8 Technology: “Multiplied man” 158
Tim Armstrong

9 The Concept of the State 1880–1939: “The discredit of the State is a sign that it has done its work well” 179
Sarah Wilkinson

10 Physics: “A strange footprint” 200
Michael H. Whitworth

11 Modernist Publishing: “Nomads and mapmakers” 221
Peter D. McDonald

12 Reading: “‘Mind hungers’ common and uncommon” 243
Todd Avery and Patrick Brantlinger

Select Bibliography 262

Index 266