Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?ISBN: 978-0-631-21307-9
Paperback
264 pages
January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the
‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound
and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem
Renaissance.
- Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and
reactionary.
- Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and
historical crises and movements.
- Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War
II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston
Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean
Rhys.
- Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.