Modernism: A Guide to Criticism

• A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
• Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
• Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
• Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
• Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
• Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
• Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.

• A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  
• Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  
• Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  
• Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  
• Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization, and to other literary and cultural movements
  
• Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questions surrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers with a limited knowledge of the modernist canon
  
• Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).