Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley
This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide.
Modernist Literature
Rachel Potter
Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies
Discussing canonical modernist writers such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot alongside less familiar writers such as Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, the guide takes students through a wide-ranging modernist literary landscape. It considers how the publishing networks and collaborative projects which connected writers in the period were central to the creation of English-language modernism. It also introduces students to recent critical debates in modernism studies, with separate chapters on: the writing of geography and exile; obscenity and literary censorship; mass culture (with a particular focus on film); and modernism and politics.
Key Features
* Modernism is presented as an extensive literary landscape, something that has featured significantly in recent critical discussions of modernism
* Introduces students to modernist techniques and to recent debates, including the changing meaning of the word 'modernism'
* Shows how English-language modernism emerged, and connects this to recent debates about modernist publishing and networks
Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (2006) and co-editor of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (2010).
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Rachel Potter is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia with research interests in the area of modernist literature. Her first book Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930 (Oxford, 2006) considered the relationship between modernism, gender and politics. She has also co-edited the collection of critical essays on the modernist poet Mina Loy called The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge, 2010).

Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; When was modernism?; What was modernism?; Modernist poetry: T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of K. Alfred Prufrock'; Modernist prose: James Joyce's Ulysses; Chapter 1. Modernist Networks 1914-1928: Futurists, Imagists, Vorticists, Dadaists; London, 1914; New York City, 1917; Paris, 1922; 1928; Chapter 2. Modernism and Geography; Modernism and Realism; Dublin; Exiled Writing; Chapter 3. Sex, Obscenity, Censorship; Law and Literature; Modernism and Feminism; Sexuality; Chapter 4. Modernism and Mass Culture; Modernist authority; Cinema; Popular Fiction and Journalism; Chapter 5. Modernism and Politics; Revolution and Economics; War; Conclusion; Student Resources; Electronic Resources; Glossary; Questions for Discussion; Bibliography; Index.