Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? by Mahaffey, Vicki

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631213079)

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Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? by Mahaffey, Vicki

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?

$49.95
Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions? by Mahaffey, Vicki

Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions?

$49.95
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Vicki Mahaffey
ISBN-10: 0631213074
ISBN-13: 9780631213079
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2007
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.00w x 0.61d
By Vicki Mahaffey
By Vicki Mahaffey
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Vicki Mahaffey is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York and a former Guggenheim Fellow and winner of both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Award for teaching. Her previous publications include Reauthorizing Joyce (1988) and States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experience (1998).

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