Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern
For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the defining forms of aesthetic modernism. Ranging from the pamphlet wars of seventeenth-century England to dyke and ACT-UP manifestoes of the 1990s, her extraordinarily accomplished book offers the first extended treatment of this influential form...
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Polemics in the Modern Vein11Manifestoes and Public Spheres: Probing Modernity92Manifestoes and Revolutionary Discourse: Women in the Cross Fire463Militant Allies, Strange Bedfellows: Suffragettes and Vorticists before the War924Modernists and Gatekeeping Manifestoes: Pound, Loy, and Modern Sanctions1245A Second-Wave Problematic: How to Be a Radical168Conclusion: Now and Again203Works Cited207Index223
\ From the Publisher"A major, ground-breaking work of scholarship regarding the centrality of the manifesto to the political and aesthetic contradictions of modernity. From its opening pages, the book reveals itself as a lucid, confident and carefully argued piece of work, written with real elegance and elan. Lyon succeeds admirably in showing the connections between issues that have often been treated in isolation, such as revolutionary rhetoric, aesthetic theory, feminism, and the public sphere."-Rita Felski, University of Virginia\ "This is a wonderful book. Anyone interested in revolutions-aesthetic, political, sexual-and the way they are represented by their most ardent proponents will want to read Janet Lyon's Manifestoes."-Stephen Watt, Indiana University\ "Janet Lyon's genre study of manifestoes and modernity has an impressively ambitious reach-from the Diggers and Levellers to the feminist SCUM and cyborgianism. She posits telling conjunctures between aesthetics and politics, avant-gardism and feminism, in such historical moments as Republican France, literary modernism, and second-wave feminism. The result is a fresh, new reading of manifestoes as a revolutionary form of discourse interwoven with the history of feminism and inseparable from the formation of the modern subject in the West."-Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison\ "Lyon offers an innovative, far-ranging study. . . A complex, lucid, and nuanced study of the manifesto as the "signature genre" of aesthetic and political militancy, this volume will be indispensible to all college and university collections."-Choice\ "This book is suggestive in its argument and expansive in its topics. . . Recommended for all readers who are interested in the history of political modernism."-Virginia Quarterly Review. Winter, 2000.\ "Brilliantly nuanced and historically rich. . . Janet Lyon's acute weaving of modernist history, manifestic dissent, avant-garde aesthetics, and feminist struggle is gracefully learned, supple, and exciting. We are left with an entirely fresh sense of the extent to which the public spheres of modernity permitted their linguistic and political freedoms."-Ian F.A. Bell, University of Keele. Yearbook of English Studies, 31, 2001\ "This book provides compelling histories and analysis for scholars of media and social movements to mine for inspiration."-Catherine Squires, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Journal of Communication, March 2001\ \ \
