Wisteria by Claude Monet
Welcome to the British Modernism guide. This guide is designed to give a brief overview of Modernist writers in the old British Empire. The user will find all sorts of materials available through the Gumberg Library on novelists, poets, and playwrights including reference works, print and electronic books, as well as databases for articles.
A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry by 
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers by 
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by 
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel by According to the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, modernism is defined as:
an extended historical moment in which various aesthetic issues develop in counterpoint with the emergence of modern culture (characterized by the formation of the nation-state, of the concept of the individual, and of industrial and consumer capitalism). These aesthetic issues are explored by modern visual and literary artists as an ongoing tension between a search for legitimacy according to scientific, universal, ahistorical, or transcendent terms and a self-conscious sense of the historical specificity and cultural effect of artistic forms.
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Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Twentieth-Century British Fiction by 
Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 by Click on a link below to see all books on that topic in the Gumberg Library.
Modernism - Literature - England
Modernism - Literature - Great Britain
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Authors, British - 20th century – Biography
Belief and doubt in literature
British fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
British poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
City and town life in literature
English Poetry, Modern - 20th century
Feminism and literature - Great Britain- History - 20th Century
Literature, Experimental - Great Britain - History and criticism
Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 20th century
Mythology, Classical in literature
Novelists, English - 20th century
Poetry, Modern - History and criticism
Progress in English literature
Psychoanalysis in English literature
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
Stream of consciousness fiction
Women and literature – Great Britain - History - 20th century
This research guide was created by Victoria Wilson, English Department Intern, Gumberg Library, November 2019
