{"product_id":"moderns-chaucer-to-contemporary-a-robert-lee-9781399543804","title":"Moderns - Chaucer to Contemporary Fiction","description":"In this compelling new book, A. Robert Lee tackles the questions: how, and why, does a literary work assume the mantle of 'modern'? He shows, with wit and verve, that writing as far back as Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales \u003c\/i\u003ecan be called 'modern'. That the term further applies to John Skelton's poetry and to Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003eand to the sexual and theological verse of John Donne. That 'modern' literary experimentation holds as you read Sterne's \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e, the poetry of Byron, the gothic of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the essays of Hazlitt, a novel like Conrad's \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/i\u003e and the work of Samuel Butler, Lytton Strachey and Ford Madox Ford. That with writers such as Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson and Jean Rhys you have a gallery of the feminist modern. These 'ultra' moderns segue into the postmodern turn of B.S. Johnson and Ann Quin and to boundary-pushing contemporary fiction, from Bernardine Evaristo to Alan Hollinghurst. However singular each writer, Lee argues persuasively for a distinctive collection of 'modern' voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Robert Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399543806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399543804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"A. Robert Lee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46420489994495,"sku":"9781399543804","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ea62e03-48af-4df6-be5b-3d3df4991d3b.jpg?v=1734634786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moderns-chaucer-to-contemporary-a-robert-lee-9781399543804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}