This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.




A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism

Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments

Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.

Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject

Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements

Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon

Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.