The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 10 1910‐1940. The Modern Movement

The Modern Movement is the fifth volume to be published to date in the Oxford English Literary History, that will eventually comprise thirteen volumes and which is the successor to the Oxford History of English Literature. It covers 30 years of a rich diversity of publications that appeared in the period just before the first world war, the war itself, the 1920s and 1930s, and the outbreak of the second world war. These are surely the most eventful decades in recent history, marking revolutions in outlook, behaviour and fashion. Periodisation is usually arbitrary but it is a necessary...