Modernist literatures : a reader's guide to essential criticism /
Sarah Davison ; consultant editor, Nicolas Tredell.
- 1st ed
- ix, 234 pages ; 22 cm.
- MacMillan Education Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Series .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222) and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Modernist Beginnings -- 2. High Modernism -- 3. Modernism after 1922 -- PART II -- 4. The Making of Modernist Canons -- 5. Gender and Sexuality -- 6. Modernist Geographies -- 7. Modernist Literatures and Mass Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literature of the modernist period. Sarah Davison explores a variety of critical works, from initial pronouncements to recent studies which have shaped the way that Anglo-American modernism is understood and theorized today"--