Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism

The market for this reference book is clear. Most undergraduate students reading any European, American or English language literature will have to study at least one modernist writer. Most undergraduate English degrees include James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Joseph Conrad in the study of the modernist novel and W.B. Yeats is a popular choice for the teaching of modernist poetry. Modernist literature also features heavily in the UK National Curriculum for English, which states two pre‐1914 fiction texts, two post‐1914 fiction texts, four pre‐1914 poets and four post‐1914 poets must be studied between the ages of 11‐16. Evidently, a book...