Reading

This reading list will be annotated and added to as the project develops:

Primary texts: literary 1912-22

Cannan, May Wedderburn. In War Time. Poems [1917] (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1917)

Eliot, T.S.  Prufrock and Other Observations [1917] (London: Faber, 2001)

---.       The Waste Land [1922] (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922)

Ford, Ford Madox.  The Good Soldier [1915] (London: Mayflower Books, 1965)

Joyce, James.  Ulysses [1922] edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior; afterword by Michael Groden (London: Bodley Head, 1986, 1993)

Lawrence, D.H.   The Prussian Officer and Other Stories [1914] (London: Duckworth & Co., 1914)

---.       Tortoises [1921] (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921)

---.       England, My England and Other Stories [1922] (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922)

---.       Aaron's Rod [1922] (London: Martin Secker, 1922)

---.       Birds, Beasts and Flowers [1923] (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011)

Mansfield, Katherine.  Bliss: and Other Stories [1920] (London: Constable & Co., 1923)

---.       The Garden Party: and Other Stories [1922] (London: Constable & Co., 1923)

Sassoon, Siegfried.  The Old Huntsman [1917] (London: William Heinemann, 1917)

---.       Counter-Attack and Other Poems [1918] (London: William Heinemann, 1918)

---.       War Poems [1919] (London: William Heinemann, 1919)

Stein, Gertrude. Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms [1914] (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover

   Publications; London: Constable, 1997)

Woolf, Virginia.  Jacob’s Room [1922] (Richmond: L. & V. Woof, 1922)

Life Writing 1912-1922

Bagnold, Enid. A Diary without Dates [1917] (London: Virago, 1978)

Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth [1933; reports from WW1 period] (London; Dublin: Arrow Books, 1960)

Cannan, May Wedderburn. [March 26th 1911-April 24, 1919] Recollections of a British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment, No. 12, (1971) Oxford University

Cummings, E.E. The Enormous Room [1922] (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922)

On-line Archives

Blast Vols. 1 and 2 [1914-1915] The Modernist Journals Project (Brown University and Tulsa University)   https://modjourn.org/render.php?id=1158591480633184&view=mjp_object

British Army War Diaries,1914-22. The National Archives, UK   https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/war-diaries-ww1.htm

Soldiers’ Wills, National Archives of Ireland https://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/search/sw/home.jsp

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive [1914-18] (includes The Hydra, a magazine

   produced by the patients of the Craiglockhart War Hospital, noteworthy for having been

   edited by Wilfred Owen) https://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

Primary Texts: scientific and philosophic

Adams, Charles C. Guide to the Study of Animal Ecology [1915] (New York : Arno Press, 1977)

Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution [1911] translated by Arthur Mitchell, Henry Holt and Company (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984)

Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund  Freud translated by James Strachey in collaboration with: Anna Freud, Alix Strachey, and  Alan Tyson, Vols 1-14. (London: Hogarth Press and the Institute for Psychoanalysis: 1953-74)

---.       ‘On Narcissism: an introduction’ (1914) SEXIV: pp 67-102

---.       ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ (1920) SEXVIII: pp 1-64

Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time [1926] translated by John Maquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962)

Muir, John. Our National Parks [1901] (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901)

Scheler, Max. The Nature of Sympathy [1913] translated by Peter Heath (New York: Archon Books. 1970)

---.       The Human Place in the Cosmos [1928] translated by Manfred Frings (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009)

Smuts, Jan Christian. Holism and Evolution [1926] (London : Macmillan & Co., 1926)

Uexküll, Jakob von. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans : with A Theory of Meaning [1934] translated by Joseph D. O'Neill (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of  Minnesota Press, 2010)

---.       Theoretical Biology [1920] (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1926)

Vernadsky, Vladimir. The Biosphere [1926] translated by David B. Langmuir; revised and annotated by Mark A.S. McMenamin. (New York: Copernicus, c1998)

Worringer, Wilhelm. Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style [1909] translated by Michael Bullock (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963)

Background Reading

Agamben, Giorgio. The Open: Man and Animal translated by Kevin Attell (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press; London : Eurospan, 2004)

Barbusse, Henri. Under Fire [1916] translated by William Fitzwater Wray (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1917)

Bell, Michael. Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)

Bergen, Leo van. Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Surrey: Ashgate, 2009)

Campbell, Jan. Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature (London: Karnac 2013)

Clough, P.T. with Jean Halley. The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2007)

Englund, Peter. The Beauty and the Sorrow: an Intimate History of the First World War translated by Peter Graves (London : Profile, 2011)

Flatley, Jonathan. Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2008)

Foucault, Michel, Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-74 translated by Graham Burchell (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

---.       Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France : 1977-78  translated   by Graham Burchell (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

----.      The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France: 1978-79 translated by  Graham  Burchell. (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008)

Freemantle, Michael. Gas! Gas! Quick boys: How Chemistry Changed the First World War  (Stroud : Spellmount, 2012)

Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern  Memory (Oxford, Oxford University press, 1975)

Haber, L. F. The Poisonous Cloud; Chemical Warfare in the First World War (Oxford University Press, 1986)

Herwig, M.; Kull, K. ‘The unwitting muse: Jakob von Uexkull’s theory of Umwelt and twentieth-century literature’, Semiotica 134.1; 2001, 553-592

Kroeber, Karl. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. (New York: Columbia UP, 1994)

Kull, Kalevi, ed.  Jakob von Uexküll: A Paradigm for Biology and Semiotics. (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001)

Nieland, Justus. Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life (Illinois: Univ Illinois Press, 2008)

Netz, Raviel, Barbed Wire: an Ecology of Modernity (Hanover, N.H. : Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

Potter, Jane. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

Rives, Rochelle. Modernist Impersonalities: Affect, Authority and the Subject (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Santanu Das. Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.  Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham : Duke University Press,  2002)

---.       edited with Adam Frank. Shame and its Sisters : a Silvan Tomkins Reader (Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 1995)

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1977)

Slevin, Tom. ‘The Wound and the First World War: ‘Cartesian’ Surgeries to Embodied Being  in Psychoanalysis, Electrification and Skin Grafting’, Body and Society 14.2; 2008 pp. 39–61

Sloterdijk, Peter. Bubbles: Microspherology translated by Wieland Hoban (Los Angeles, Calif.: Semiotexte, 2011)

---.       Terror from the Air translated by Amy Patton and Steve Corcoran (Los Angeles, Calif. : Semiotexte, 2009)