Title: High and low moderns
Description: This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories.

In contributions by scholars David Bromwich, Roy Foster, Edna Longley, Louis Menand, Edward Mendelson, and others, High and Low Moderns brings these writers into critical proximity.

Essays on such topics as the public mourning of Queen Victoria, Florence Farr and the "New Woman," the Edwardian Shaw, Lady Gregory's attraction to Irish felons, and the high artistic uses of low entertainments - cinema, detective fiction, and journalismintroduce a subtler model of modernism, in which "demotic" and "elite" cultural forms criticize, imitate, and address one another.
Subjects: Modernism (Literature), English literature, Literature and anthropology, Popular literature, Popular culture, History and criticism, History, Litterature et anthropologie, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, Culture populaire, Histoire et critique, Litterature anglaise, Paralitterature, Modernisme (Litterature), Histoire, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Popular literature, history and criticism, Popular culture, great britain
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century