Covering key canonical texts as well as lesser-known works, this engaging volume provides a comprehensive and critical assessment of British literature from the beginning of the twentieth century up to World War II.

The book adopts a unique structure in which individual chapters focus on a single decade, a distinct genre, and a specific theme. This balance of the historical and aesthetic contexts of modernist literature gives students and general readers a culturally informed overview of the movement, while also posing intriguing questions and offering re-evaluative readings of modernist experiments in representation. A detailed chronology and further readings are included with each chapter.

An imaginative mix of cultural studies and close reading, Modernist Literature makes the best contemporary research on modernism accessible and understandable.