Contents

Contributors

Introduction

On the Significance of a Hulmean Modernism

Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek

1    The Imagery of Hulme’s Poems and Notebooks

Paul Edwards

2    A Language of Concrete Things: Hulme, Imagism and Modernist Theories of Language

Andrew Thacker

3    ‘A Definite Meaning’: The Art Criticism of T. E. Hulme

Rebecca Beasley

4    Abstraction, Archaism and the Future: T. E. Hulme, Jacob Epstein and Wyndham Lewis

Alan Munton

5    T. E. Hulme and the ‘Spiritual Dread of Space’

Helen Carr

6    Hulme’s Compromise and The New Psychologism

Jesse Matz

7    Hulme Among the Progressives

Lee Garver

8    Towards a ‘Right Theory of Society’?: Politics, Machine Aesthetics, and Religion

Andrzej Gasiorek

9    ‘Above Life’: Hulme, Bloomsbury, and Two Trajectories of Ethical Anti-Humanism

Todd Avery

10  The Politics of Epochality: Antinomies of Original Sin

C. D. Blanton

11  Hulme’s Feelings

Edward P. Comentale

Bibliography

Index