Modernism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism).pdf

Modernism

Edited by Michael H. Whitworth

Blackwell

Publishing

Modernism

Blackwell Guides to Criticism

Editor Michael O’Neill

The aim of this new series is to provide undergraduates pursuing literary studies

with collections of key critical work from an historical perspective. At the same

time emphasis is placed upon recent and current work. In general, historic

responses of importance are described, and represented by short excerpts, in

an introductory narrative chapter. Thereafter landmark pieces and cutting edge

contemporary work are extracted or provided in their entirety according to

their potential value to the student. Each volume seeks to enhance enjoyment

of literature and to widen the individual student’s critical repertoire. Critical

approaches are treated as ’tools’, and not articles of faith, to enhance the pursuit

of reading and study. At a time when critical bibliographies seem to swell

by the hour and library holdings to wither year by year, the Blackwell Guides to

Criticism series offers students privileged access to and careful guidance through

those writings that have most conditioned the historic current of discussion and

debate as it now informs contemporary scholarship.

Published volumes

Roger Dalrymple Middle English

Corinne Saunders Chaucer

Emma Smith Shakespeare’s Comedies

Emma Smith Shakespeare’s Histories

Emma Smith Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Francis O’Gorman The Victorian Novel

Michael Whitworth Modernism

Forthcoming

Uttara Natarajan The Romantic Poets