Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Plates
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction: ‘Nothing is really statically at rest’: Cézanne and Modern Still Life
- 1 ‘Quivering yet still’: Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Aesthetics of Attention
- 2 Still Life in Motion
- 3 ‘Past the gap where we cannot see’: Still Life and the ‘Numinous’ in British Painting of the 1920s–1930s
- 4 ‘Inactive contemplation’: Wallace Stevens and Charles Mauron
- Conclusion: ‘On the very brink of utterance’: Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler and Transfigured Things
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
Series Editors’ Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Plates
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction: ‘Nothing is really statically at rest’: Cézanne and Modern Still Life
- 1 ‘Quivering yet still’: Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Aesthetics of Attention
- 2 Still Life in Motion
- 3 ‘Past the gap where we cannot see’: Still Life and the ‘Numinous’ in British Painting of the 1920s–1930s
- 4 ‘Inactive contemplation’: Wallace Stevens and Charles Mauron
- Conclusion: ‘On the very brink of utterance’: Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler and Transfigured Things
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
Summary
This series of monographs on selected topics in modernism is designed to reflect and extend the range of new work in modernist studies. The studies in the series aim for a breadth of scope and for an expanded sense of the canon of modernism, rather than focusing on individual authors. Literary texts will be considered in terms of contexts including recent cultural histories (modernism and magic; sonic modernity; media studies) and topics of theoretical interest (the everyday; postmodernism; the Frankfurt School); but the series will also re-consider more familiar routes into modernism (modernism and gender; sexuality; politics). The works published will be attentive to the various cultural, intellectual and historical contexts of British, American and European modernisms, and to inter-disciplinary possibilities within modernism, including performance and the visual and plastic arts.
Tim Armstrong and Rebecca Beasley
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- Modernism and Still LifeArtists, Writers, Dancers, pp. xv - xviPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020