The Modernism Handbook
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.

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The Modernism Handbook
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.

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The Modernism Handbook

The Modernism Handbook

The Modernism Handbook

The Modernism Handbook

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: 9780826488428
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/04/2009
Series: Literature and Culture Handbooks
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. His many publications as both author and editor include Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (co-edited with Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson) The 1980s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014).

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

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