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LITERARY STUDIESLEONARD DIEPEVEENMOCKMODERNISMAN ANTHOLOGY OF PARODIES,TRAVESTIES, FRAUDS, 1910 –1935Approx. 320 pp / 6 x 9 / December 201325 illustrationsCloth 978-1-4426-4482-3$68.00 (£47.99) EeBook 978-1-4426-6180-6 $68.00Literary Studies / Art History/ Cultural StudiesMock ModernismAn Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910–1935Edited by Leonard DiepeveenHow was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was firstemerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art wereinterpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines like Punch and VanityFair, and literary magazines. In the earliest decades of the movement – before modernist artistswere considered important, and before modernism’s meaning was clearly understood – manyof these interpretations took the form of parodies.Mock Modernism is an anthology of these amusing pieces, the overwhelming majority ofwhich have not been in print since the first decades of the twentieth century. They include MaxBeerbohm’s send-up of Henry James; J.C. Squire’s account of how a poet, writing deliberatelyincomprehensible poetry as a hoax, became the poet laureate of the British BolshevistRevolution; and the Chicago Record-Herald’s account of some art students’ “trial” of HenriMatisse for “crimes against anatomy.” An introduction and headnotes by Leonard Diepeveenhighlight the usefulness of these pieces for comprehending media and public perceptions of aform of art that would later develop an almost unassailable power.Leonard Diepeveen is a professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of EmpireNadine AttewellApprox. 336 pp / 6 x 9 / November 20133 illustrationsCloth 978-1-4426-4702-2$65.00 (£45.99) EeBook 978-1-4426-6707-5 $65.00Literary Studies / Cultural StudiesBetter BritonsReproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of EmpireNadine AttewellIn 1932, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World, his famous novel about a future in whichhumans are produced to spec in laboratories. Around the same time, Australian legislatorsannounced an ambitious experiment to “breed the colour” out of Australia by procuringwhite husbands for women of white and indigenous descent. In this study, Nadine Attewellreflects on an assumption central to these and other policy initiatives and cultural texts fromtwentieth-century Britain, Australia, and New Zealand: that the fortunes of the nation dependon controlling the reproductive choices of citizen-subjects.Better Britons charts an innovative approach to the politics of reproduction by reading anarray of works and discourses – from canonical modernist novels and speculative fictions togovernment memoranda and public debates – that reflect on the significance of reproductivebehaviours for civic, national, and racial identities. Bringing insights from feminist and queertheory into dialogue with work in indigenous studies, Attewell sheds new light on changingconceptions of British and settler identity during the era of decolonization.Nadine Attewell is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studiesat McMaster University.44university of toronto press