num_pages: 200
description: This introductory guide to Modernism and its contexts from 1890-1939 an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including arts, science and philosophy; a survey of the developments in key genres including discussion of major writers and groups including Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and the Bloomsbury group; concise explanations of key terms needed tounderstand the literature and criticism; a guide to key criticalapproaches to Modernism from early twentieth-century critics to the present; a chronology mapping historical events and literary works from this era; and a guide to further reading, including websites and electronic resources.
language: English
title: Modernism
titlecomplete: Modernism (Introductions to British Literature and Culture)
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Continuum