A Concise Companion to Modernism

Central to the study of any period of literature must be some understanding of the events and ideas which have come together to influence that literature. While we each bring our own reading to a piece, coloured by the experience of our own era – it is valuable to be able to see where an author’s perception of an issue may have been different from currently prevailing opinions. The modernist period, taken in this volume to span 1880‐1939, witnessed revolution in both literal and figurative senses. People’s understanding of the world around them and of their role in it was...