Modernism

With its battle cry of 'Make it New', the modernist movement shook the foundations of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment. Modernism offers an outstanding analysis of this literary and cultural revolution. Peter Childs' immensely readable account: * details the origins of the modernist movement and the influence of thinkers such as Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein * explores the radical changes which occurred in the literature, drama, art and film of the period * traces 'modernism at work' in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, Mansfield, Forster, Yeats, Ford, Eliot, Conrad, Beckett and other key literary figures * reflects upon the shift from modernism to post-modernism. Engaging, lucid and critically informed, this book takes the reader from the basics to an advanced understanding of one of the most important cultural movements of the last hundred years.