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| - '[This] book is a mine of useful information, interesting details, and (doubtless deliberately) provocative opinions.' - Jeremy Hawthorn, YES, 37
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| Description | | - This exciting new volume in the Oxford English Literary History series provides a comprehensive account of literature in England in the turbulent years before, during, and after the First World War.
- Ranges widely across psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, and children's books.
- A major contribution to our understanding of the significance of literature in the early twentieth-century.
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.
Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and the ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and
inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers.
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.
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Readership: Scholars, students, and all general readers of twentieth-century literature.
| Contents |
Introduction
Part One: Elements
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The Modern Literary Market
2.
Modern Authorship
3.
Modern English Usage
Part Two: Forms
4.
Modern Poetry
5.
Modern Drama
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Modern Short Stories
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The Modern Novel
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The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle
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The Modern Psychological Novel
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Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction
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Modern Satire
12.
Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books
13.
Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading
Part Three: Occasions
14.
England and the English
15.
The Great War
16.
Childhood and Youth
17.
Sex and Sexualities
Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism
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| Authors, editors,
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Chris Baldick, Professor of English, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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