Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures viii
4. Notes on contributors xii
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Acknowledgements
8. Introduction 29
9. 1 Prehistoric Proust 33
10. 2 Fantômas and the shudder of history 54
11. 3 Inventing, collecting and classifying in the margins 72
12. 4 The anxious centre 88
13. 5 1913, the year of the arrière-garde? 109
14. Acknowledgements
15. Introduction 123
16. 6 A modernism that has not yet been 127
17. 7 On situating French modernism 145
18. 8 Les Caves du Vatican and the real novel 163
19. 9 1913, between peace and war 173
20. Acknowledgements
21. Introduction 193
22. 10 Camille Flammarion’s flash-forward 197
23. 11 How ‘simultaneous’ is it? 220
24. 12 Mallarmé’s modernity in 1913 237
25. 13 Poetry displaced 252
26. 14 Behind Picasso’s pins 274
27. Part IV: Coda: on modernism, beyond France and 1913
28. 15 1913, the future in the past 299
29. 16 The paradox and promise of the ‘new’ French Modernist Studies 310
30. Index 325