This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. * Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels * Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky * Explores Pound’s Personae next to Apollinaire’s Alcools and Rilke’s Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country next to Proust’s Swann’s Way