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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN-10
0631213074
ISBN-13
9780631213079
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96596897
Product Key Features
Author
Vicki Mahaffey
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Theory
Dimensions
Weight
388g
Height
229mm
Width
155mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
14mm
Content Note
0
Author Biography
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).