The first guide to the work of Wyndham Lewis as writer, novelist, and critic Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics, and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism’s key creative artists and a unique twentieth-century thinker. This book offers a scholarly companion to his written work. It features dedicated chapters on such novels as Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), The Revenge for Love (1937), The Human Age sequence (1928-55), and Self Condemned (1954). Also included are chapters on Lewis’s pre-war writing, cultural criticism, politics, satire, and reputation and legacy. Other chapters consider such varied topics as Vorticism and avant-gardism, war, race and gender, technology and mass media, and modernism. Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide is essential reading for scholars working on Lewis, modernism, and twentieth-century socio-cultural history. Key Features * Provides a clear overview of Lewis’s literary, critical and non-fictional achievements * Explores Lewis’s most important novels in individual chapters * Expert contributors include: Faith Binckes (Bath Spa University), David Bradshaw (University of Oxford), Paul Edwards (University of East Anglia), Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria University), Miranda Hickman (McGill University), Scott W. Klein (Wake Forest University), Ian Patterson (University of Cambridge), and Alan Munton (University of Exeter) Andrzej Gąsiorek is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Nathan Waddell is an Assistant Professor of Literary Modernism at the University of Nottingham

Gasiorek and Waddell should be commended for bringing together a truly impressive cast of authorities on Lewis, who reaffirm here the provocative vitality of Lewis's work for modernist studies today. Critically eclectic and thematically comprehensive, this book combines broader cultural and literary-historical essays with energetic readings of key novels from Lewis's formidable oeuvre. * David James, Queen Mary, University of London *
a welcome addition to the bookshelves of university libraries, graduate students, and professors who teach or research modernist literature and art. -- Heather Fielding, Purdue University Northwest * Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies *

Andrzej Gasiorek is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature and Head of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. Nathan Waddell is Lecturer in Modernist Literature in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Modern John Buchan (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009) and Modernist Nowheres (Palgrave, 2012). He is a co-editor of Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (Ashgate, 2011), John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming 2013), and Utopianism and Modernism in Twentieth-Century Literary Cultures (Palgrave, forthcoming 2013). He has published several articles on modernist and early twentieth-century writers in edited collections and peer-reviewed journals, and at present is working on a project provisionally titled ‘The Musical Wars of Modernism, 1914-1945’.