Books by Tim (Royal Holloway Armstrong

Tim Armstrong explores the cultural metaphors underpinning slavery and its legacy using a range of American art and literature, focusing especially on the writings of African-American authors like Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison.

In "Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems" Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardy's poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poet's career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the "Collected Poems" of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically. Head notes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardy's manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy's notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading.Tim Armstrong's critical Introduction discusses Hardy's career, his poetics, his use of memory and allusion and examines his position in the context of Victorian debates on aesthetics and belief. The generous selection of poems includes many lesser-known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary, and the important elegiac sequence 'Poems of 1912-13' is included in its entirety. Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of "Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory" (2000).

* The first volume in a new Polity literary studies series, 'Themes in 20th Century Literature and Culture'. * Combines a clear argument for those with no prior knowledge or experience of Modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level undergraduates and scholars.

Tim Armstrong addresses the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. He draws on a wide range of disciplines to demonstrate the complex interconnections between technology and literature to provide a cultural history modernism as it negotiated the enduring fact of the human body in a period of rapid technological change.