Volume 10 : 1910-1940: the Modern Movement.

Intro -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- A Note on References -- Introduction: Modern Beginnings -- Part I: Elements -- 1. The Modern Literary Market -- 2. Modern Authorship -- 3. Modern English Usage -- Part II: Forms -- 4. Modern Poetry -- Verse Technique -- Hardy and Yeats -- Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and 'Georgian' Poetry -- Imagism and After: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence -- W. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties -- Trends, Anthologies, and Reputations -- 5. Modern Drama -- From Problem Play to Discussion Play -- Comedy of Manners: Maugham and Coward -- Historical and Verse Drama -- 6. Modern Short Stories -- 7. The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods -- 8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle -- Provincial Chronicles and Sagas -- Condition of England, Industrial, and Civic Novels -- 9. The Modern Psychological Novel -- Realism and the Education Novel -- High Modernism, Memory, and Consciousness -- 10. Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction -- Romances of Truancy -- Historical Novels -- Fabulous Romances -- Visionary Romances -- 11. Modern Satire -- Verse Satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon -- Prose Satire: Huxley, Waugh, and Others -- 12. Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books -- 13. Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading -- Detective Fiction -- The Thriller -- Romantic Love Stories -- Comical Prose Fiction -- Part III: Occasions -- 14. England and the English -- Names for England -- England Epitomized -- England Explored -- The English Character -- The English Abroad -- 15. The Great War -- Survivals of Heroic Literature -- Four Phases of War-Writing -- Passivity, Martyrology, and War Myths -- 16. Childhood and Youth -- 17. Sex and Sexualities -- Sex-Talk in the Freudian Age -- Realism, Deviance, and Censorship -- Erotic Writing.

Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism -- Author Bibliographies -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This is the fifth volume to be published in the the Oxford English Literary History series. This series of groundbreaking volumes offers leading scholars' considered assessments of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.

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