Preface; Introduction; Part I. Origins: 1. Trials of modernity; 2. Primitivists and modernizers; 3. The avant-garde and High modernism; Part II. Genres: 4. Poetry; 5. Prose fiction; 6. Drama; Part III. Fate: 7. Literature and politics; Conclusion: after modernism?; Chronology.
An overview of how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres.
Pericles Lewis is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
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