The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.

  • An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture

  • Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage

  • Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic

  • Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art

  • Features 25 essays on the signal texts of modernist literature, from James Joyce’s Ulysses to Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • Pays close attention to both British and American modernism