The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement

This is the fifth volume to be published in the the Oxford English Literary History series. This series of groundbreaking volumes offers leading scholars' considered assessments of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age.

A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.