目录
Acknowledgements xiii
General Editor's Preface xv
List of Figures xxii
A Note on References xxv
Introduction: Modern Beginnings 1
Part I Elements
1. The Modern Literary Market 17
2. Modern Authorship 36
3. Modern English Usage 57
Part II Forms
4. Modern Poetry 75
Verse Technique 76
Hardy and Yeats 80
Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and 'Georgian' Poetry 87
Imagism and After: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence 94
W. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties 103
Trends, Anthologies, and Reputations 107
5. Modern Drama 114
From Problem Play to Discussion Play 117
Comedy of Manners: Maugham and Coward 125
Historical and Verse Drama 132
6. Modern Short Stories 137
7. The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods 155
8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle 170
Provincial Chronicles and Sagas 170
Condition of England, Industrial, and Civic Novels 180
9. The Modern Psychological Novel 189
Realism and the Education Novel 191
High Modernism, Memory, and Consciousness 200
10. Modern Romance, Fable and Historical Fiction 212
Romances of Truancy 213
Historical Novels 219
Fabulous Romances 224
Visionary Romances 228
11. Modern Satire 234
Verse Satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon 236
Prose Satire: Huxley, Waugh, and Others 239
12. Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs, and Travel Books 253
13. Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading 272
Detective Fiction 273
The Thriller 281
Romantic Love Stories 288
Comical Prose Fiction 293
Part III Occasions
14. England and the English 303
Names for England 303
England Epitomized 304
England Explored 310
The English Character 315
The English Abroad 320
15. The Great War 325
Survivals of Heroic Literature 328
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