Freewomen and Supermen adds to the comparatively recent body of
research which has sought to re-evaluate the literature and culture
of the 'long' Edwardian period (1900-1914). It singles out the
editors of two of the most important magazines for the history of
modernism, Dora Marsden, editor of the Freewoman (later renamed the
New Freewoman and then the Egoist) and A.R. Orage, editor of the
New Age. Together with other editors such as Emma Goldman in
America, Marsden and Orage fostered an optimistic, colourful,
aube-de-siecle culture to rival the fin-de-siecle culture of the
preceding decade. Their magazines were interdisciplinary in
approach, with articles on literature and philosophy appearing
alongside discussions of such matters as anarchism, eugenics,
suffragism, suburban architecture, vegetarianism, and the
'intermediate sex'. Anne Fernihough argues that the often extreme
positions adopted amongst 1900s radicals on both sides of the
Atlantic were a response to a period of political turmoil and
startling demographic and technological change. Their radicalism
impacted in its turn on a wide range of literary forms, contents
and theories, and continued to so beyond the First World War and
into the 'high modernist' period. The book discusses both British
and American writers across different genres, including Henry
James, Dorothy Richardson, Upton Sinclair, Rebecca West, James
Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, T. E. Hulme,
Ezra Pound, Theodore Dreiser, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Tressell,
and Gertrude Stein. Other cultural figures discussed include the
sexologists Otto Weininger and Edward Carpenter, and the
diet-reformer, Horace Fletcher. The film and television industries
have often capitalised on a nostalgic vision of the Edwardian, but
Freewomen and Supermen emphasises the more embattled aspects of
Edwardian culture such as anarchism, suffragism, eugenics and
food-reform, and shows how Edwardian radical thought was to play a
crucial role in the development of literary modernism.
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