目录 General Editors Preface List of Figures and Tables A Note on References
Introduction: Modern Beginnings
Part I Elements 1. The Modern Literary Market 2. Modern Authorship 3. Modern English Usage
Part II Forms 4 Modern Poetry Verse Technique Hardy and Yeats Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and Georgian Poetry Imagism and After: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence W. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties Trends, Anthologies, and Reputations 5 Modern Drama From Problem Play to Discussion Play Comedy of Manners: Maugham and Coward Historical and Verse Drama 6. Modern Short Stories 7 The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods 8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle Provincial Chronicles and Sagas Condition of England, Industrial, and Civic Novels 9 The Modern Psychological Novel Realism and the Education Novel High Modernism, Memory, and Consciousness 10. Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction Romances of Truancy Historical Novels Fabulous Romances Visionary Romances 11. Modern Satire Verse Satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon Prose Satire: Huxley, Waugh, and Others 12. Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books 13. Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading
Part III Occasions Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism
Author Bibliographies Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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