The Modern Movement - The Oxford English Literary History

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Baldick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2005
• EAN: 9780199288342
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928834-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Oxford English Literary History; Oxford English Literary Histor; Print on Demand; Oxford English Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)