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This study examines the impact of nationalist political thought on the modern novel.

A broad, accessible account of European modernism as a truly cosmopolitan movement.

A broad, accessible account of European modernism as a truly cosmopolitan movement.

In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of ‘, national character’, prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists’, concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individual ...

More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of...

More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of...

Considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion.