Publisher's Synopsis
This is a guide to the Modernist movement in literature, offering a comprehensive documentary resource to students and researchers. It covers a wide range of intellectual concerns for the period 1850 to 1940 in Britain, Europe and America, drawing on contemporary reviews, essays, articles and manifestos of the political and aesthetic avant-garde.;The material selected comprises a concrete expression of the culture of modernity, providing insights into the origins, contexts and diverse manifestations of the Modernist movement. It is divided into three sections: the emergence of the Modern; the avant-garde; and Modernists on the Modern.
