MARTIN HALLIWELL is a Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Romantic Science at the Experience of Self.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernity and the Crisis of Morals PART I: NATURALISM AND DECADENCE Decadence, Naturalism and the Morality of Writing (Huysmans, Wilde, Norris, Wharton) Books and Ruins: Abject Decadence in Gide and Mann PART II: SYMBOLIC CENTRES OF MODERISM Extremist Modernism: The Avant-Garde and the Limits of Art (Tzara, Huelsenbeck, Breton, Aragon) Moral Regeneration and Moral Bankruptcy: Conrad, Faulkner and Idiocy PART III: SEXUAL AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE American Expatriate Fictions and the Ethics of Sexual Difference (Stein, Hemingway, Miller, Nin) The Blind Impress of Modernity: Lorca, Kafka and New York PART IV: MODERNIST TRICKERY The Modernist Picaresque: Moralists without Qualities (Musil, Hesse, Hurston, Roth) Myths of the Magician: Klaus and Thomas Mann in Nazi Germany Conclusion: Liberating the Fear of Modernity Endnotes Bibliography Index

'This lucid and always intelligent book offers what scarcely seems possible at this date: a fresh look at modernism. Modernism in Halliwell's view is a genuinely international and multifarious occasion; an intricate reaction to a long crisis in morality. Old ethical systems collapsed, as we have often been told, at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. What Halliwell shows us in subtle detail is that certain crucial ethical issues, old and new, 'just will not go away'. This is a study of what remains of ethics in modern literature, and of how it remains.' - Michael Wood, Professor of English, Princeton University, NJ 'Halliwell builds a detailed and convincing argument for rethinking popular notions of modernism.' - Choice