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Chapter 11 - Modernism

from Part II - Pan-European Moods and Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

Petra Rau
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
William T. Rossiter
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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This chapter discusses how British modernists engaged with Europe. It takes account of the wider landscape of modernists active on British soil: the impact of art circulation (including key moments like the vogue for Ivan Meštrović, British performances of the Ballets Russes, and F. T. Marinetti’s visit to England), continental European travel and residence, translation, the rise of disciplines like anthropology, attitudes like ‘Byzantinism’ and ‘primitivism’, and the redrafting of European nation-state boundaries. For key figures such as W. B. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, and Virginia Woolf, one of the driving forces of British modernism was the question of what Europe is and what it might become if its geographical, cultural, and social boundaries were redefined. British modernists’ interest in Europe was intimately connected to their obsession with borders and boundaries – of spaces, political possibilities, customs, conditions, and humans. Reimagining others and themselves as insiders, outsiders, or in-outsiders, the writers and artists of the period adopted a range of identities (from regional identities to British to European and/or cosmopolitan) and developed corresponding artistic practices.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Modernism
  • Edited by Petra Rau, University of East Anglia, William T. Rossiter, University of East Anglia
  • Book: Europe in British Literature and Culture
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425483.015
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  • Edited by Petra Rau, University of East Anglia, William T. Rossiter, University of East Anglia
  • Book: Europe in British Literature and Culture
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425483.015
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  • Modernism
  • Edited by Petra Rau, University of East Anglia, William T. Rossiter, University of East Anglia
  • Book: Europe in British Literature and Culture
  • Online publication: 06 June 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425483.015
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