The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement

Chris Baldick

ISBN 10: 0198183100 / ISBN 13: 9780198183105

Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

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550 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction: modern beginnings pt. 1. Elements. 1. Modern literary market 2. Modern authorship 3. Modern English usage pt. 2. Forms. 4. Modern poetry 5. Modern drama 6. Modern short stories 7. The modern novel: principles and methods 8. The modern novel as social chronicle 9. The modern psychological novel 10. Modern romance, fable, and historical fiction 11. Modern satire 12. Modern essays, biographies, memoirs, and travel books 13. Modern entertainment: forms of light reading pt. 3. Occasions. 14. England and the English 15. The Great War 16. Childhood and youth 17. Sex and sexualities Retrospect: three decades of modern realism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198183100
• ISBN 13: 9780198183105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.

Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and the ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers.

This exciting new volume provides a freshly inclusive account of literature in England in the period before, during, and after the First World War. Chris Baldick places the modernist achievements of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce within the rich context of non-modernist writings across all major genres, allowing 'high' literary art to be read against the background of 'low' entertainment. Looking well beyond the modernist vanguard, Baldick highlights the survival and renewal of realist traditions in these decades of post-Victorian disillusionment. Ranging widely across psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, and children's books, The Modern Movement provides a unique survey of the literature of this turbulent time.

About the Author

Chris Baldick is Professor of English, Goldsmiths College, University of London.