Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. Alex Murray is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter. He is also founding editor, with Matt Sharpe and Jon Roffe of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.

• General Editors' Introduction; Introduction: Beginning with Modernism, Philip Tew (Brunel University) and Alex Murray (University of Exeter); Timeline, Nicola Allen (University of Central England); 1. The Historical Context of Modernist Literature, Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster); 2. Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events, Emmett Stinson (University of Melbourne); 3. Case Studies in Reading: Key Primary Literary Texts, Jeanette Baxter (University of East Anglia); 4. Case Studies in Reading: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts, Bryony Randell (University of Glasgow); 5. Key Critical Concepts, Topics and Figures, David Ian Paddy (Whittier College); 6. Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches, Gary Day (De Montfort University); 7. Changes in the Canon, Alex Murray (University of Exeter); 8. Gender and Modernism, Deborah Parsons (University of Birmingham); 9. Mapping the Current Critical Landscape, Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University); Glossary, Philip Tew (Brunel University); Appendix: A Survey of Modernist Literature Curricula, Steve Barfield (University of Westminster); Notes on Contributors; Annotated Bibliography; Index.

This is the best guide to the Scylla and Charybdis of Modernism; the quickest and easiest way of navigating the cultural historical currents, and the surest means of edging along the critical and theoretical reefs that so many other textbooks have foundered on.