Modernism and Matter

Literature in Quest of a new assembly of elements’ (1907-1941)

Xavier Le Brun, Christine Reynier

In the wake of recent reappraisals of modernism through the lens of ecocriticism and within the compass of New Modernist Studies, this volume seeks to renew our reading of modernist literature by focusing on matter...

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In the wake of recent reappraisals of modernism through the lens of ecocriticism and within the compass of New Modernist Studies, this volume seeks to renew our reading of modernist literature by focusing on matter. Rather than addressing the materiality of the book or of archive, it focuses on matter as organic or unorganic, as encompassing human bodies as well as cosmic elements, vegetal matter and the materiality of objects, and as vibrant and dynamic. Analysing the representation of matter in its multifarious acceptations in the novels, short stories and poetry of the early twentieth century entails touching upon aesthetic matter as well as ethical or ontological issues connected with the living world at large. This is done through a rich interdisciplinary approach that conjurs up literary theory while drawing now on the philosophy and scientific discoveries of the time, now on contemporary knowledge. In this light, the works of canonical authors such as Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf or Elizabeth Bowen take on new meanings while neglected ones, like those of Vita Sackville-West or Mina Loy, beg to be further acknowledged.

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Année de publication 2025
Auteur Xavier Le Brun, Christine Reynier
Format 16 x 24
ISBN 978-2-36781-521-3
ISSN 0220-5610
Nombre de pages 274
Éditeur Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée – PULM
Langue Anglais
Type ouvrage Broché, dos carré collé
Date de mise à disposition 19 sept. 2025
Quantité stock 8 Sens 39
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Sous-Titre Literature in Quest of a new assembly of elements’ (1907-1941)
Xavier Le Brun, Christine Reynier

Xavier Le Brun is a Lecturer at the University of Angers. He specialises in modernist literature, short forms, self and interiority in the modernist period, and the interactions between philosophy and literature.

Christine Reynier is Professor of English Literature at University of Montpellier Paul- Valéry, France. She has published on modernist writers, with recently, Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays (Routledge, 2019) and a critical edition of A Room of One’s Own (Un lieu à soi, Gallimard, 2020).

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