The Modernism Handbook / Edition 1

by Philip Tew, Alex Murray

Overview

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including:
- Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts


- Guides to key critics, concepts and topics


- An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research


- Case studies in reading literary and critical texts


- Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms.





The Modernism Handbook is an invaluable introduction edited by Philip tew and Alex Murray to British Modernism as a literary movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826488435
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/04/2009
Series:	Literature and Culture Handbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. Alex Murray is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter. He is also founding editor, with Matt Sharpe and Jon Roffe of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Introduction Introduction: Beginning with Modernism, Philip Tew (Brunel University) and Alex Murray (University of Exeter) Timeline, Nicola Allen (University of Central England)1. The Historical Context of Modernist Literature, Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster) 2. Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events, Emmett Stinson (University of Melbourbane)3. Case Studies in Reading: Key Primary Literary Texts, Jeanette Baxter (University of East Anglia)4. Case Studies in Reading: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts, Bryony Randell (University of Glasgow)5. Key Critical Concepts, Topics and Figures, David Ian Paddy (Whittier College)6. Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches, Gary Day (De Montfort University)7. Changes in the Canon, Alex Murray (University of Exeter)8. Gender and Modernism, Deborah Parsons (University of Birmingham)9. Mapping the Current Critical Landscape, Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University)Glossary, Philip Tew (Brunel University)
Appendix: A Survey of Modernist Literature Curricula, Steve Barfield (University of Westminster) Notes on ContributorsAnnotated BibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

The book uses a number of aids- from boxes highlighting important concepts or authors, to neat summaries of chapters, to a detailed glossary of terms and concepts, to an excellent annotated bibliography- to help students coming to modernism for the first time gain a foothold in what is an incredibly large field of study. It is an excellent introduction to what is a nebulous and ungainly topic.--Sanford Lakoff

"The books in this series of Literature and Culture Handbooks are aimed primarily at undergraduate students which aim of acting as both a guide and a reference text reflecting the advances in academic studies." The Use of English, Spring 2010

"This is the best guide to the Scylla and Charybdis of Modernism; the quickest and easiest way of navigating the cultural historical currents, and the surest means of edging along the critical and theoretical reefs that so many other textbooks have foundered on."
- Dr Rod Mengham, University of Cambridge, UK

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