This accessible introduction to Modernism and its contexts from 1890-1939 includes:
- 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 to understand the literature and criticism
- a guide to key critical approaches to modernism from contemporary critics to the present
- a chronology mapping historical events and literary works
- guided further reading including websites and electronic resources.
