Modernist Literature
An Introduction
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2007
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780748627639
- Publish Date
- Mar 2007
- List Price
- $121.00
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Description
Modernist Literature: An Introduction is edited by Mary Ann Gillies and Aurelea Mahood. This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British literature produced between 1900 and 1945. The book adopts a unique structure in which individual chapters focus on a single decade, a distinct genre and a specific theme: the 1900s - the short story - gender and sexuality; the 1910s - poetry - war, technology and propaganda; the 1920s - the novel - new modes of literary expression; the 1930s - the documentary - political engagement. A final chapter covers the 1940s and beyond looking at new literary and artistic movements and "other" modernisms.
Covering key canonical texts as well as lesser-known works, Modernist Literature introduces students and general readers to a diverse range of literature in its historical and aesthetic contexts and to current debates in this ever-evolving field of study.
About the authors
Mary Ann Gillies is a professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.