Movements in English Literature

Christopher Gillie selects the relevant writers that show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940.

Gillie (Author)

9780521099226, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 May 1975

216 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.28 kg

In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. As a guide to himself as well as the reader, he includes in the account enough historical and social narrative as may help explain such relevance, and why he has made particular selections. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: the world of art and art in the world: twentieth-century differences
2. The early twentieth-century novel: James, Wells and Conrad
3. D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
4. The recovery of poetry 1900–1920
5. Diversification of the novel 1920–1930
6. The critical decade 1930–1940
7. Yeats and Eliot: the climax
8. Drama 1900–1940
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]