Conservative Modernists

Despite sustained scholarly interest in the politics of modernism astonishingly little attention has been paid to its relationship to Conservatism. Yet modernist writing was imbricated with Tory rhetoric and ideology from when it emerged in the Edwardian era. By investigating the many intersections between Anglophone modernism and Tory politics Conservative Modernists offers new ways to read major figures such as T. S. Eliot Ezra Pound T. E. Hulme and Ford Madox Ford. It also highlights the contribution to modernism of lesser-known writers including Edward Storer J. M. Kennedy and A. M. Ludovici. These are the figures to whom it most frequently returns but cutting through disciplinary delineations the book simultaneously reveals the inputs to modernism of a broad range of political writers philosophers art historians and crowd psychologists: from Pascal Burke and Disraeli to Nietzsche Le Bon Wallas Worringer Ribot Bergson and Scheler.