The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential
texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique
insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study
of modernism.
* An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist
literature and culture
* Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage
* Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most
distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic
* Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture,
contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the
genres of modernist writing and art
* Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature,
from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora Neal
Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
* Pays close attention to both British and American
modernism
A propos de l’auteur
David Bradshaw is Reader in English Literature at Oxford
University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature
at Worcester College, Oxford. He has edited many works of modernist
literature, including the Oxford World’s Classics editions of
Lawrence’s Women in Love (1998), Woolf’s Mrs
Dalloway (2000) and To The Lighthouse (2006), and the
Penguin Classics editions of Waugh’s Decline and Fall
(2001) and The Good Soldier (2002). He is also the editor of
A Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003) and is
Victorian and Modern Literature Editor of the Review of English
Studies.
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service
Professor and Chair of English at Pomona College, California. He
has written and edited a number of books, on James Joyce, modernist
literature and culture, and rock & roll, edited the Barnes
& Noble Classics edition of Joyce’s Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, and has served as
President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is series
editor, with Mark Wollaeger, of the Modernist Literature &
Culture series published by Oxford University Press.
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