导语

  

    《现代运动》牛津大学出版社推出他们多卷本英国文学史的其中第十卷，由伦敦大学的克里斯·鲍尔迪克教授撰写。该书写作时间距离被讨论的作家群创作活动期较近，主要聚焦于一些最触目的人物和现象，集中讨论了哈代、詹姆斯、萧伯纳、康拉德、吉卜林、叶芝、乔伊斯和劳伦斯八位名家。

内容提要

  

    本书为读者提供了第二次世界大战前约三十年间英国文学文化的全景图，涵盖的内容涉及两百多位作家，在有限的空间里展示出庞杂而多彩的文学景观。其立论持中而又不失尖锐明快，更体现出作者对社会文化历史背景的重视和兴趣。文学史视野的扩展映现了近年来兴起的文化研究的深刻影响，使我们对那一时期英国文学的面貌有了更周全的了解。

General Editor's Preface
List of Figures and Tables
A Note on References
Introduction: Modern Beginnings
Part Ⅰ Elements
1. The Modern Literary Market
2. Modern Authorship
3. Modern English Usage
Part Ⅱ Forms
4. Modern Poetry
     Verse Technique
     Hardy and Yeats
     Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and 'Georgian' Poetry
     Imagism and After: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence
     W. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties
     Trends, Anthologies, and Reputations
5. Modern Drama
     From Problem Play to Discussion Play
     Comedy of Manners: Maugham and Coward
     Historical and Verse Drama
6. Modern Short Stories
7. The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods
8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle
     Provincial Chronicles and Sagas
     Condition of England, Industrial, and Civic Novels
9. The Modern Psychological Novel
     Realism and the Education Novel
     High Modernism, Memory, and Consciousness
10. Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction
     Romances of Truancy
     Historical Novels
     Fabulous Romances
     Visionary Romances
11. Modern Satire
     Verse Satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon
     Prose Satire: Huxley, Waugh, and Others
12. Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs,
     and Travel Books
13. Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading
     Detective Fiction
     The Thriller
     Romantic Love Stories
     Comical Prose Fiction
Part Ⅲ Occasions
14. England and the English
     Names for England
     England Epitomized
     England Explored
     The English Character
     The English Abroad
15. The Great War
     Survivals of Heroic Literature
     Four Phases of War-Writing
     Passivity, Martyrology, and War Myths
16. Childhood and Youth
17. Sex and Sexualities
     Sex-Talk in the Freudian Age
     Realism, Deviance, and Censorship
     Erotic Writing
Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism
Author Bibliographies
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index