Aestheticism and Modernism: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1900-1960

This textbook ranges from the early twentieth-century to the full array of modernisms emerging between the First and Second World Wars. The editors introduce twentieth-century debates around genre, form and content reflected in both literary and critical writing of the period, as well as differing accounts of the function of literature (aestheticist vs. didactic). They go on to examine debates around modernisms, and the various ways in which authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415351685
• ISBN13: 9780415351683
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.8"