目录 Acknowledgements xiii General Editors Preface xv List of Figures xxii A Note on References xxv Introduction: Modern Beginnings 1 Part I Elements 1. The Modern Literary Market 17 2. Modern Authorship 36 3. Modern English Usage 57 Part II Forms 4. Modern Poetry 75 Verse Technique 76 Hardy and Yeats 80 Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and Georgian Poetry 87 Imagism and After: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence 94 W. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties 103 Trends, Anthologies, and Reputations 107 5. Modern Drama 114 From Problem Play to Discussion Play 117 Comedy of Manners: Maugham and Coward 125 Historical and Verse Drama 132 6. Modern Short Stories 137 7. The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods 155 8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle 170 Provincial Chronicles and Sagas 170 Condition of England, Industrial, and Civic Novels 180 9. The Modern Psychological Novel 189 Realism and the Education Novel 191 High Modernism, Memory, and Consciousness 200 10. Modern Romance, Fable and Historical Fiction 212 Romances of Truancy 213 Historical Novels 219 Fabulous Romances 224 Visionary Romances 228 11. Modern Satire 234 Verse Satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon 236 Prose Satire: Huxley, Waugh, and Others 239 12. Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books 253 13. Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading 272 Detective Fiction 273 The Thriller 281 Romantic Love Stories 288 Comical Prose Fiction 293 Part III Occasions 14. England and the English 303 Names for England 303 England Epitomized 304 England Explored 310 The English Character 315 The English Abroad 320 15. The Great War 325 Survivals of Heroic Literature 328 Fou
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