Introduction / Maria DiBattista -- [Historical soundings] -- Surviving Victoria / Jay Dickson -- [Major and minor reputations] -- T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane / David Bronwich -- Remaking Marxist criticism : Partisan review's Eliotic leftism / Harvey Teres -- Florence Farr : a "transitional woman" / A. Walton Litz -- Appendix : 'Ibsen' women" / Florence Farr -- "The business of the earth" : Edward Thomas and ecocentrism / Edna Longley -- [Edwardian miscellany] -- The Edwardian Shaw, or the modernist that never was / Nicholas Grene -- Kipling in the history of forms / Louis Menand -- How Lawrence corrected Wells; How Orwell refuted Lawrence / Edward Mendelson -- The lowly art of murder : modernism and the case of the free woman / Maria DiBattista -- [Cultural politics] -- Love, politics, and textual corruption : Mrs. O'Shea's Parnell / R.F. Foster -- The demotic Lady Gregory / Lucy McDiarmid -- Appendix : Lady Gregory's review of "Days of fear" / Frank Gallagher -- Broadcasting news from nowhere : R.B. Cunninghame Graham and the geography of politics in the 1890's / Chris GoGwilt
This collection offers a revisionist picture of modernism. This group of prominent scholars including Havey Teres, David Bromwich, A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lucy McDiarmid consider the major modernist writers who are customarily treated as if they wrote in different eras and different worlds: the "epicene" high modernists (such as Yeats, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf) and the more "popular" low modernists (including Hardy, Shaw and Wells), and bring these writers into critical proximity with one another
