List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Beyond Modernism, Andrew Frayn ( Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK) Section 1: Genre Introduction, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK) 1. Serious Rivals: Popular Physics Writing as Noncanonical Literature, Michael H. Whitworth (University of Oxford, UK) 2. 'I Hate Practical Englishmen': Hugh Walpole's The Dark Forest (1916), Anglo-Russian Encounter, and the modern-period canon, Nicholas Birns (New York University, USA) 3. 'Salute John Citizen': Forgetting and Remembering Robert Greenwood's People's War Novels (1940-1949)', Chris Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 4. The Anxious Modern Woman: Elizabeth Taylor's Early Fiction, Jessica Gildersleeve (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Section 2: Form Introduction, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK) 5. 'Civilisation is on the Edge of a Precipice' : interdisciplinarity and next-war fiction in Princess Paul Troubetzkoy and C.R.

W. Nevinson's Exodus A.D. (1934), Thomas Bromwell (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, UK) 6. 'A Fugal Siege': Sacheverell Sitwell's Canons of Giant Art (1933), Allan Pero (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) 7. Jessica Dismorr: Vorticism's Forgotten Voice, Lauren Faro (Independent scholar) 8. '[A] writer of murk': reading Oswell Blakeston's obscurity, Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Section 3: Gender Introduction, Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK) 9. Postcolonial Interactions with British Non-Canonicity: Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 'Sultana's Dream' (1905) and 'Padmarag' (1924) as Feminist Utopias, Rehnuma Sazzad (University of London, UK) 10.

Forced Independence: The Complicated, Non-Canonical Feminism of Violet Hunt, Melissa Dinsman (York College of the City University of New York, USA) and Heather Robinson ( York College of the City University of New York, USA) 11. Mourning the Canon: Exclusivity, Exclusion and Dorothy Edwards's Short Stories, Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK) 12. 'Being at Home in the World': Stella Benson's Goodbye, Stranger (1926), Nicola Darwood (University of Bedfordshire, UK) 13. Minding the gaps: Non canonicity and the cases of Rachel Annand Taylor and Rachel Cusk, Susan Reid (Independent Scholar) Conclusion: Noncanonical futures. Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) and Katie Jones (Swansea University, UK) Index.