The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

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Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early British film culture in literature, thus providing the first account of cinema as a cause for modernism. Shailx2019;s study draws on little-known sources to create a detailed picture of cinema following its x2018;second birthx2019; as both institution and medium. The book presents a comprehensive accountof how UK-based modernism originated as a consequence ofx2014;rather than a conscious aesthetic response tox2014;this new component of the cultural landscape. Filmx2019;s new accounts of language, endeavor, time, collectivity and political change are first considered, then related to the patterns that comprised modernist texts. Authors discussed include Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, H.D., James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson.

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Andrew Shail is Lecturer in Film in the Department of English at Newcastle University, UK.