Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?

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.

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• 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 Becke...