A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture

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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture offers a comprehensive exploration of the modernist movement, combining foundational texts and contextual insights. Featuring over 60 contributions from leading scholars, it covers key elements of modernist culture, intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all genres of modernist writing and art. The volume includes 25 essays on landmark literary works, spanning British and American modernism, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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This is an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars engaged in the study of modernist literature and culture, offering broad and authoritative coverage suitable for academic settings.

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture is an essential resource for students and teachers of modernism. The volume brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art.

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The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.

An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture.

Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage, it includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bringing together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art, the Companion provides a wide-reaching exploration of the field.

Featuring 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce's Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, it offers in-depth analysis and discussion.

Special attention is given to both British and American modernism, making it an invaluable resource for further study and understanding.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405188227

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

Edited by David Bradshaw
Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Edited by David Bradshaw
Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar
Edited by David Bradshaw
Edited by Kevin J. H. Dettmar

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1071g

Pages: 624

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About the Author

David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at Oxford University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernist literature, including the Oxford World’s Classics editions of Lawrence’s Women in Love (1998), Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006), and the Penguin Classics editions of Waugh’s Decline and Fall (2001) and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor of A Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and is Victorian and Modern Literature Editor of the Review of English Studies.

Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College, California. He has written and edited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernist literature and culture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, and has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is series editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature & Culture series published by Oxford University Press.