'Go in fear of abstractions': Modernism and the spectre of democracy

Textual Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 479-497

  Fernihough, Anne ^a  

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Author keywords

Democracy; Eugenics; Freewoman; Modernism; New Age; Pound

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EID: 55449129125     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095023600750040667     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. See e.g. the New Age, 6 January 1910, pp. 237, 240; 13 January 1910, p. 259. I would like to thank Rupert Wood, Juliet Dusinberre and James Simpson for reading this essay and for their valuable comments and encouragement.
2. 'Nietzsche and woman', New Age, 9 March 1911, p. 439.
3. Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
4. Wallace Martin, The New Age Under Orage: Chapters in English Cultural History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967), p. 28;
5. New Age, 2 December 1909, p. 113.
6. Freewoman, 7 March 1912, p. 312.
7. The Tunnel (1919), in Pilgrimage, 4 vols (1967; London: Virago, 1979), ii. 122.
8. E.B. Lloyd in the New Freewoman, 1 October 1913, p. 156;
9. T.E. Hulme, 'Romanticism and Classicism'. Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art, ed. Herbert Read (1924; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), pp. 111-40 (p. 127).
10. An Englishman's Home by 'A Patriot' (Major Guy du Maurier, an army of. cer serving in South Africa whose actor-manager Gerald du Maurier put the play on in the West End in January 1909).
11. Ezra Pound, 'Patria Mia', II, New Age, 12 September 1912, p. 466;
12. 'America: chances and remedies', II, New Age, 8 May 1913, p. 34;
13. 'Vortex: Pound', Blast, I (20 June 1914), pp. 153-4;
14. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, New Age, 23 February 1911, p. 406;
15. Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911), pp. 97-8;
16. T.E. Hulme, 'A lecture'. Further Speculations, ed. Sam Hynes (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1955), p. 69.
17. Ford Madox Hueffer, Ancient Lights (London: Chapman and Hall, 1911), pp. 269, 290.
18. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr, ed. Paul O'Keeffe (1918; Santa Rose: Black Sparrow Press, 1990), pp. 311-12, 32.
19. Clive Bell, Art, ed. J.B. Bullen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 25;
20. T.E. Hulme,'Modern art and its philosophy'. Speculations, pp. 73-109 (p. 86);
21. 'Humanism and the religious attitude'. Speculations, pp. 1-71 (p. 9);
22. Maud Ellmann, The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Harvester, 1987);
23. W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley, The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (University of Kentucky Press, 1954).
24. Hulme, 'Romanticism and Classicism', pp. 114, 116.
25. A clear account of this is given in Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism, Chapter 6 (pp. 80-102).
26. Hulme, 'Humanism and the religious attitude', p. 6;
27. 'Modern art', pp. 87, 80
28. 'Romanticism and Classicism', pp. 127, 126;
29. I discuss this more fully in the introduction to the New Penguin edition of In a German Pension (London: Penguin, 1999).
30. 'Humanism and the religious attitude', p. 10.
31. New Freewoman, 1 October 1913, pp. 155-6
32. 'A few don'ts by an imagiste', Poetry, March 1913.
33. New Age, 15 August 1907, p. 251.
34. Allen Upward, 'Anthopolatry', New Age, 13 January 1910, p. 249;
35. 'Allen Upward serious', New Age, 23 April 1914
36. reprinted in Ezra Pound, Selected Prose, ed. William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1973), pp. 377-92 (p. 379)
37. Freewoman, 23 November 1911, p. 3.
38. The Letters of T. S. Eliot, i. 1898-1922, ed. Valerie Eliot (New York: Harcourt Brace Janovitch, 1988), p. 204.
39. 'Vortex: Pound', pp. 153-4.
40. Collected Letters, ed. E. L. Griggs (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1956-71), i. 626
41. Appendix A, 'The statesman's manual'. The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vi (Lay Sermons), ed. R.J. White (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1972), p. 79.
42. T.E. Hulme, 'Searchers after reality - II: Haldane', New Age, 19 August 1909, pp. 315-16.
43. See T.S. Eliot, 'The metaphysical poets'. Selected Essays (London: Faber and Faber, 1932), pp. 281-91
44. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961), p. 77.
45. Time and Western Man (New York: Harcourt, Brace 1928), p. 214.
46. See e.g. the introduction to Toril Moi's Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (London: Methuen, 1985), pp. 1-18.
47. Mrs Dalloway (1925; London: Vintage, 1992), p. 41.
48. It is perhaps no surprise, either, that a stream-of-consciousness writer like Dorothy Richardson was herself an admirer of Nietzsche. See e.g. her review of Orage's book on Nietzsche in The Open Road: An Unconventional Magazine concerned with Religion, Psychology, Sociology, Diet and Hygiene (November 1907), pp. 243-8.
49. Bax's works included The Ethic of Socialism (1889)
50. and The Fraud of Feminism (1913).
51. 'Modern art', pp. 82, 97, 105, 97, 89, 96;
52. 'Cinders', pp. 228-9;