The New Modernist Novel

The new modernist studies have recognised a range of writers, many of whom are now receiving new attention in criticism and teaching. Yet if an older modernist studies was developed for a different, narrower selection of literary works, how can its tools be brought to this new, widened canon? This book considers how close reading may change as the discipline’s subjects of study change. The chapters ask first how modernism was being read around 1930 and at mid-century, and then what close reading