Chris Baldick's The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: The Modern PDF

By Chris Baldick

The Oxford English Literary background is the hot century's definitive account of a wealthy and various literary historical past that stretches again for a millennium and more.

every one of those groundbreaking volumes bargains a number one scholar's thought of evaluation of the authors, works, cultural traditions, occasions, and the guidelines that formed the literary voices in their age. The sequence will enlighten and encourage not just each person learning, educating, and getting to know in English Literature, yet all severe readers.

This fascinating new quantity offers a freshly inclusive account of literature in England within the interval earlier than, in the course of, and after the 1st global battle. Chris Baldick areas the modernist achievements of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce in the wealthy context of non-modernist writings throughout all significant genres, permitting "high" literary artwork to be learn opposed to the historical past of "low" leisure. having a look well past the modernist forefront, Baldick highlights the survival and renewal of realist traditions in those many years of post-Victorian disillusionment. Ranging largely throughout mental novels, warfare poems, detective tales, satires, and kid's books, The glossy Movement offers a special survey of the literature of this turbulent time.

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