Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions

By Vicki Mahaffey

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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. 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 Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys. Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0631213074

ISBN13:9780631213079

Release Date:January 2007

Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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