Moonlighting offers a new and original account of how early twentieth-century Anglo-American modernist writers were influenced by the life and music of one of modernity's most important and most celebrated figures: the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: The Idea of the Heroic


• 2: Eloquent Citations


• 3: The Confines of Habit


• 4: Articulate Masks


• 5: The Politics of Value


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

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).