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T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism

By (author) Henry Mead

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Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T.E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme's relationship with New Age, a leading radical journal before the Great War, focussing particularly on his exchange of ideas with its editor, A.R. Orage. Through a ground-breaking account of Hulme's reading in continental literature, and his combative exchanges amongst the bohemian networks of Edwardian London, Mead shows how 'the strange death of Liberal Englandâ€™ coincided with Hulmeâ€™s emergence as what T.S. Eliot called â€˜the forerunner ofâ€¦ the twentieth century mind'. Tracing his debts to French Symbolism, evolutionary psychology, Neo-Royalism, and philosophical pragmatism, the book shows how Hulme combined anarchist and conservative impulses in his journey towards a â€˜religious attitudeâ€™. The result is a nuanced account of Hulme's ideological politics, complicating the received view of his work as proto-fascist.