Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Origins: 1. Trials of modernity; 2. Primitivists and modernizers; 3. The avant-garde and High modernism; Part II. Genres: 4. Poetry; 5. Prose fiction; 6. Drama; Part III. Fate: 7. Literature and politics; Conclusion: after modernism?; Chronology.

Promotional Information

An overview of how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres.

About the Author

Pericles Lewis is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.