Great War Modernism and 'The New Age' Magazine

‘Jackson explores the intense mood of expectancy of a new era induced in the generation of British intellectuals directly affected by the catastrophe of the First World War. In doing so he shows how a wide variety of longings for regeneration are linked with the radical experimentations in aesthetics, social organization, economics, and politics that fed into inter-war European thought – each of which are increasingly recognized as different manifestations of modernism. As a result, all too familiar ‘English’ figures suddenly appear in a fresh ‘continental’ light. This new approach hopefully signals a belated readiness of British cultural historians to break out of decades of self-imposed insularity and isolationism when considering Europe-wide cultures of modernism.’ — Professor Roger Griffin, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK