The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction 1900-1950

Examining the work of more than one hundred writers in a wide variety of genres including detective spy gothic fantasy comic and science fiction this book is an unusually comprehensive introduction to the novels and short stories of the period. Providing fresh readings of famous modernist figures (Conrad Ford Madox Ford Joyce Woolf Forster Lawrence and others) Robert L. Caserio also brings new attention to lesser-known writers who merit increased attention. He provides readers with an overview of modernist fiction''s intellectual milieu and addresses its contextualization by history and politics - feminism global war and the emergence of the welfare state after World War II. An ideal introduction for the student this book offers a thought-provoking re-examination of literary history and an exploration of the unique value of fiction''s portrayals of the world.