Modernism

An Anthology

Rainey, Lawrence (Editor)

Blackwell Anthologies

1. Edition July 2005
1216 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-20448-0

John Wiley & Sons

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Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published.

* Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett.

* Includes a generous selection of Continental texts, enabling readers to trace modernism's dialogue with the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and the Frankfurt School.

* Supported by helpful annotations, and an extensive bibliography.

* Allows readers to encounter anew the extraordinary revolution in language that transformed the aesthetics of the modern world.

"Lawrence Rainey, one of the leading modernist scholars in the
world today, has produced an anthology ideally suited for the
classroom. The attention to Continental developments as well as
central Anglo-American texts distinguishes the volume from others
now available to students. The range of writers, the judiciousness
of the selection, and the expert introduction should make this the
leading text in the field." Professor Michael Levenson,
University of Virginia

"He has been marvelously selective. There are no secret
traditionalists here, no writers included merely for their
prominence in modernism's historical moment or for modern themes
alone; all are hardcore, the real thing." James Joyce
Quarterly

Lawrence Rainey is Professor of English at the University of York. He is the founding editor of the journal Modernism / Modernity, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and The Independent. He is the author of Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture (1991), Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (1998), and Revisiting 'The Waste Land' (2005). He has also edited The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose (2005).

L. Rainey, University of York