Childs - Modernism

Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyses what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.

In this fully updated, expanded and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:

• details the origins of modernism and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein;

• explores the radical changes which occurred in the arts, literature, drama, and film of the period;

• traces modernism at work in literature by a range of authors including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and many others;

• explains recent critical interest in the culture and worldwide impact of modernism;

• reflects upon the shift from modernism to postmodernism.

At once accessible and critically informed, Modernism guides readers from first steps in the field to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural phenomena of the last centuries.

Peter Childs is Professor and Pro Vice chancellor at Newman University, UK. He has edited and written over twenty books on diverse subjects ranging from contemporary British culture to post-colonial theory.

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MODERNISM

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Third Edition

Peter Childs

Third edition published 2017
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First edition published 2000

Second edition published 2008

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Childs, Peter, 1962- author.

Title: Modernism / by Peter Childs.

Description: Third edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |
Series: New critical idiom | Includes bibliographical references, glossary, and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016014248| ISBN 9781138931619 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138931626 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315679679 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Modernism (Art) | Arts, Modern19th century. | Arts, Modern20th century.

Classification: LCC NX454.5.M63 C48 2016 | DDC 709.04dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014248

HBK ISBN13: 978-1-138-93161-9

PBK ISBN13: 978-1-138-93162-6

EBK ISBN13: 978-1-315-67967-9

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