Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: Elements
1: The Modern Literary Market
2: Modern Authorship
3: Modern English Usage
Part Two: Forms
4: Modern Poetry
5: Modern Drama
6: Modern Short Stories
7: The Modern Novel
8: The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle
9: The Modern Psychological Novel
10: Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction
11: Modern Satire
12: Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books
13: Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading
Part Three: Occasions
14: England and the English
15: The Great War
16: Childhood and Youth
17: Sex and Sexualities
Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism

About the Author

Chris Baldick is Professor of English, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Reviews

`Baldick argues persuasively that modernism, as exemplified by such authors as Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce, did not suddenly dominate British literature in the period 1910-40; realistic novels and traditional poetic and dramatic forms continued to flourish. . . . The individual author bibliographies are a tremendous asset. Recommended for all academic libraries, especially at the undergraduate level.'
Library Journal
`Chris Baldick's survey of the English literature of the period 1910 to 1940 is well shaped and contains sections designed to whet the appetite of the seasoned scholar of this period.'
The Journal of the English Association