The Modern Movement

1910-1940
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928834-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 693 g

This exciting new volume provides a freshly inclusive account of literature in England in the period before, during, and after the First World War. Chris Baldick places the modernist achievements of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce within the rich context of non-modernist writings across all major genres, allowing 'high' literary art to be read against the background of 'low' entertainment. Looking well beyond the modernist vanguard, Baldick highlights the survival and renewal of realist traditions in these decades of post-Victorian disillusionment. Ranging widely across psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, and children's books, The Modern Movement provides a unique survey of the literature of this turbulent time.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, students, and all general readers of twentieth-century literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baldick, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Modern Beginnings

- Part I: Elements

- 1: The Modern Literary Market

- 2: Modern Authorship

- 3: Modern English Usage

- Part II: Forms

- 4: Modern Poetry

- 5: Modern Drama

- 6: Modern Short Stories

- 7: The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods

- 8: The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle

- 9: The Modern Psychological Novel

- 10: Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction

- 11: Modern Satire

- 12: Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books

- 13: Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading

- Part III: Occasions

- 14: England and the English

- 15: The Great War

- 16: Childhood and Youth

- 17: Sex and Sexualities

- Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His previous publications include Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present (1996), The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (ed., 1992), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (2nd edition, 2001), and In Frankenstein's Shadow (1987).