The Modernism Handbook

Continuum

ISBN 10: 0826488439 / ISBN 13: 9780826488435

Published by Continuum, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modernism Handbook
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826488439
• ISBN 13: 9780826488435
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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).

Alex Murray is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter. He is also founding editor, with Matt Sharpe and Jon Roffe of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.