TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahaffey, Vicki
TI  - Modernist literature: challenging fictions
SN  - 0631213074
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - USA
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - English fiction-History and criticism
KW  - American fiction-History and criticism
KW  - Literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Reader-response criticism
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Fiction--Appreciation
KW  - Literature, Modern
N1  - Includes index
N2  - This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

-Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
-Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
-Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys.
-Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers
ER  -