Modernist Fiction: An Introduction

This revised introduction provides the complete introduction to the major modernist novelists placing their work and innovations in the context of the changing historical and social conditions of the early twentieth century. Drawing on both narrative theory and cultural history this text offers fresh insights into the work of modernist authors including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, DH Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. It also includes a discussion of the work of Marcel Proust to explore the development of modernist writing in continental Europe.