This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debatessurrounding literary modernism.* * A judicious selection of key critical works on literarymodernism* Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to themost recent theoretical assessments* Shows how modernist writers understood and constructedmodernism.* Shows how succeeding generations have developed thoseconstructions and brought new interpretations to bear on thesubject* Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and odernization,and to other literary and cultural movements* Texts have been selected for their relevance to the questionssurrounding modernism, and for their accessibility to readers witha limited knowledge of the modernist canon* Includes a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

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 GrinningMusic'.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 ofModernity.Janet Wolff.6. Regendering Modernism.'A Tangled Mesh of Modernists' (diagram).Bonnie Kime Scott.'Beyond the Reaches of Feminist Criticism: A Letter fromParis.Shari Benstock.'Modernism and Modernity: Engendering LiteraryHistory'.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