Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College. His previous publications include Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005).

• Acknowledgements. Note on the Texts.Part I.Introduction.Part II.1. Modernism and Romanticism.Romantic Image.Frank Kermode.‘Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?’.Marjorie Perloff.2. Realism and Formalism.The Ideology of Modernisim.George Lucas.Reconciliation Under Duress.Theodor Adorno.3. Modernism and the Avant-Garde.Adorno: A Critical Introduction.Simon Jarvis.Theory of the Avant-Garde.Peter Bürger.4. Modernism, the Masses, and the Culture Industry.‘Mass Culture as Woman’.Andreas Huyssen.T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: A 'Black and Grinning Music'.David Chinitz.T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: Down at Tom's Place.David Chinitz.T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide: An 'Advant-Garde' Program.David Chinitz.5. Modernity and the City.‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’.Georg Simmel.The Mire of Macadam.Marshall Berman.‘The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity.Janet Wolff.6. Regendering Modernism.‘A Tangled Mesh of Modernists’ (diagram).Bonnie Kime Scott.‘Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter from Paris.Shari Benstock.‘Modernism and Modernity: Engendering Literary History’.Rita Felski.7. Publishing Modernism.‘The Price of Modernism.Lawrence Rainey.8. Late Modernism.‘The Epistemology of Late Modernism.Alan Wilde.Late Modernism Poetics.Anthony Mellors.Further Reading.Index