Modernism

Conceived in response to growing attention to issues of context Complements accounts of Modernist literature with extracts from non-fiction prose for a hands-on sense of the period and its arguments Short, readable and affordable introduction to Modernism. Includes a range of pedagogical devices, including original documents, time-line of key events and suggestions for further reading

The early Twentieth Century produced some of the most exhilarating writing in English. Writers from Britain, America and Ireland were challenging literary conventions in order to seek to accommodate their changed perspective upon a dynamic but newly unsettling world.The early twentieth century saw modernist writers challenge literary conventions to express their perspectives on a dynamic but unsettling world. This book provides a lucid overview of the period, mapping the literary alongside historical, social and literary issues, and offering informed readings of works by Woolf, Eliot, Lawrence, Pound and Joyce amongst others.