- Hardcover: 496 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; illustrated edition edition (9 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198183100
- ISBN-13: 978-0198183105
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 823,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[This] book is a mine of useful information, interesting details, and (doubtless deliberately) provocative opinions. (Jeremy Hawthorn, YES, 37 )
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"This volume strikes a superb balance between compiling literary-historical facts and providing an important critical reassessment of a period surely in need of one.... It will surely have the impact of sending readers out to read books they now can't believe they've neglected."--Patrick Query, Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies
"Baldick argues persuasively that modernism, as exemplified by such authors as Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce, did not suddenly dominate British literature in the period 1910-40; realistic novels and traditional poetic and dramatic forms continued to flourish.... The individual author bibliographies are a tremendous asset. Recommended for all academic libraries, especially at the undergraduate level."--Library Journal
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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If this book wasn't absorbed into a series, it could stand alone as one of the best books on literary Modernism in English Literature yet written. Readable, witty, up to date, and full of fascinating facts, it as close to a page turner a work of criticism could get.
Baldick has written more than the usual bloodless survey, clicking off checklists of titles chronologically. Instead he has created an elegant framework to give the reader a context for placing the literary output of the British Isles between 1910 and 1940. This includes the usual cast of Modernists such as Woolf, Eliot and Joyce, but finds room for FOREVER AMBER and LOST HORIZONS as well. EM Forster and GB Shaw rub shoulders with Agatha Christie and Sax Rohmer.
Baldick is not shy about giving his own critical assessments (PG Wodehouse thumbs up, DH Lawrence thumbs down) and he attemps to be inclusive without being exhaustive. He eschews theoretical jargon for compulsively readable prose. He will pique your curiosity about unfamiliar titles as well as covering the usual suspects with concise plot summaries. Plays, poetry, travel writing, memoirs and many other genres are covered and there is a concluding section on special topics including children's literature, the Great War and sexuality.
I can't see how this book could have been better...except by being longer.
Baldick has written more than the usual bloodless survey, clicking off checklists of titles chronologically. Instead he has created an elegant framework to give the reader a context for placing the literary output of the British Isles between 1910 and 1940. This includes the usual cast of Modernists such as Woolf, Eliot and Joyce, but finds room for FOREVER AMBER and LOST HORIZONS as well. EM Forster and GB Shaw rub shoulders with Agatha Christie and Sax Rohmer.
Baldick is not shy about giving his own critical assessments (PG Wodehouse thumbs up, DH Lawrence thumbs down) and he attemps to be inclusive without being exhaustive. He eschews theoretical jargon for compulsively readable prose. He will pique your curiosity about unfamiliar titles as well as covering the usual suspects with concise plot summaries. Plays, poetry, travel writing, memoirs and many other genres are covered and there is a concluding section on special topics including children's literature, the Great War and sexuality.
I can't see how this book could have been better...except by being longer.
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