Outside Modernism

Outside Modernism presents eleven original essays which re-evaluate the range of English novels written between 1900 and 1930, assigned by critics to a space outside modernism. Drawing on critical perspectives as various as postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, queer theory and cultural theory, these essays argue for a new and inclusive context for understanding the development of English fiction in this period. This collection is the result of a transatlantic intellectual partnership which offers a stimulating interrogation of the cultural work performed by literary modernism.

LYNNE HAPGOOD is Head of the English Division at the Nottingham Trent University. In 1993 she won a Fullbright Award for a semester at Northern Arizona University where her collaboration with Nancy Paxton began. Her essays have appeared in several books and important journals such as Literature and History, Literature and Theology and Journal of Victorian Culture. NANCY PAXTON is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University. She is author of George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism, Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender, and Writing under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947.