Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925

The "low modern" and the "popular modernist" are twin classifying categories, emerging in contemporary scholarship on the modernist era, that may help us to

deepen our understanding of the most widely read British litera- ture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They offer a literary-historical register on which to record the social "pitch" or "range" of the era's distinctive genres of popular fiction, and they bring new tones into our concepts of high modernism. In rece...