a brilliant account of the ways in which Beethoven's work was perceived, consumed and transformed by the writers of the modernist era. It is a work of tremendous erudition, full of thought-provoking ideas, conveyed with zest, discrimination and enthusiasm. Scholars of literature and music will discover something new on every page, and the general reader will marvel at the breadth and scope of this excellent book.
Nathan Waddell is a Senior Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century and Modernist Literature in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Modern John Buchan (2009) and Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 (2012), and a co-editor of several volumes of scholarly essays, including: Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity (2011); Utopianism, Modernism,
and Literature in the Twentieth Century (2013); John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (2013); Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide (2015); and 'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies (2016).