Bøger af Chris Baldick

This text aims to provide students with a critical introduction to the major developments in literary criticism and literary theory in English since the 1890s.

Part of the "Oxford English Literary History" series, this volume provides an account of literature in England in the period before, during, and after the First World War. It covers psychological novels, war poems, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.

Eclipsed until now by the dominant story of Modernism, a much more inclusive range of 1920s literature emerges freshly illuminated in Chris Baldick's approachable history. The Twenties are reclaimed here as a period with its own distinctive historical awareness and creative agenda, one in which Modernist and non-Modernist currents are shown to engage with common memories and preoccupations. Spanning many genres high and low, including war memoirs, critical essays and detective stories as well as drama, poetry and the novel, Baldick's account situates leading works and authors of the decade - Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, Huxley, Coward and others - among a rich array of their lesser-known contemporaries to discover common obsessions - especially with the now 'lost' world of pre-War Britain - and shared moods of elegiac despair, nervous frivolity and bold irreverence.