Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?

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Description

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.

About the Author

Vicki Mahaffey is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Award for teaching. Her previous publications include Reauthorizing Joyce (1988) and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experience (1998).

Features

Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature.
Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers.

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