Movements in English Literature

by Gillie

Overview

In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. As a guide to himself as well as the reader, he includes in the account enough historical and social narrative as may help explain such relevance, and why he has made particular selections. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521099226
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/29/1975
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the world of art and art in the world: twentieth-century differences; 2. The early twentieth-century novel: James, Wells and Conrad; 3. D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930); 4. The recovery of poetry 1900–1920; 5. Diversification of the novel 1920–1930; 6. The critical decade 1930–1940; 7. Yeats and Eliot: the climax; 8. Drama 1900–1940; Select bibliography; Index.