T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism

T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism

T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism

T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism

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Overview

Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T.E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme's relationship with New Age, a leading radical jourbanal before the Great War, focussing particularly on his exchange of ideas with its editor, A.R. Orage.

Through a ground-breaking account of Hulme's reading in continental literature, and his combative exchanges amongst the bohemian networks of Edwardian London, Mead shows how 'the strange death of Liberal England' coincided with Hulme's emergence as what T.S. Eliot called 'the forerunner of… the twentieth century mind'. Tracing his debts to French Symbolism, evolutionary psychology, Neo-Royalism, and philosophical pragmatism, the book shows how Hulme combined anarchist and conservative impulses in his jourbaney towards a 'religious attitude'. The result is a nuanced account of Hulme's ideological politics, complicating the received view of his work as proto-fascist.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472582027
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/27/2015
Series: Historicizing Modernism
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Henry Mead is a Research Associate at Teesside University, UK, and Bergen University, Norway. He is the co-editor (with Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning) of Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 The Discord Club
2 Orage and Hulme – From Vitalism to a Conservative Ethic
3 The Politics of Classicism
4 Varieties of Abstraction
5 'War Notes', Sorel and Maeztu
Conclusion

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