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Studies
, 38/4 (Winter 1992), 845–69.
    Lewis and Vorticism: General Criticism
    Ayers, David,
Wyndham Lewis and Western Man
(New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992).
    Cork, Richard,
Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976).
    Dasenbrock, Reed Way,
The Literary Vorticism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis: Towards the Condition of Painting
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985).
    Edwards, Paul,
Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
    Foshay, Toby,
Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde: The Politics of the Intellect
(Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992).
    Foster, Hal,
Prosthetic Gods
(Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 2004).
    Gasiorek, Andrzej,
Wyndham Lewis and Modernism
(Tavistock: Northcote House, 2003).
    Hickman, Miranda B.,
The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005).
    Jameson, Fredric,
Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979; new edn, London and New York: Verso, 2008).
    Kenner, Hugh,
Wyndham Lewis
(London: Methuen, 1954).
    Klein, Scott W.,
The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
    Mao, Douglas,
Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
    Mao, Douglas, and Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (eds),
Bad Modernisms
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
    Materer, Timothy,
Vortex: Pound, Eliot, and Lewis
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979).
    ——
Wyndham Lewis, the Novelist
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976).
    Meyers, Jeffrey,
Wyndham Lewis, a Revaluation: New Essays
(London: Athlone Press, 1980).
    Miller, Tyrus,
Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999).
    Normand, Tom,
Wyndham Lewis the Artist: Holding the Mirror up to Politics
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
    Peppis, Paul,
Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde: Nation and Empire, 1901–1918
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
    Peters Corbett, David (ed.),
Wyndham Lewis and the Art of Modern War
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
    Puchner, Martin,
Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
    Sherry, Vincent B.,
Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
    Wagner, Geoffrey,
Wyndham Lewis: A Portrait of the Artist as the Enemy
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957).
    Wees, William C.,
Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972).
    Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics
    Ford, Ford Madox,
The Good Soldier
, ed. Thomas Moser.
    Joyce, James,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
, ed. Jeri Johnson.
    Lawrence, D. H.,
Women in Love
, ed. David Bradshaw.

A CHRONOLOGY OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
1882
(18 Nov.) Percy Wyndham Lewis born to Charles Edward and Anne Stuart Lewis in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, by Lewis’s account on his father’s yacht.
1888–93
Family lives on Isle of Wight.
1893
Parents separate. Lives with mother in England.
1897–8
Educated at Rugby School.
1898–1901
Attends Slade School of Art in London; expelled.
1904–8
Moves to Paris. Travels within France, Germany, Holland, and Spain, which provided the subject matter for his earliest fiction.
c
.1908
Begins to draft first version of
Tarr
, a narrative about a German and a duel, to be called ‘Otto Kreisler’.
1908
(Dec.) Returns to London.
1909
Meets Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford (then known as Ford Madox Hueffer). Earliest stories published in
English Review
.
1910
Art critic Roger Fry mounts revolutionary art exhibition ‘Manet and the