Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rethinking Modernism, remapping the turn of the twentieth century
  • Beatrice Webb and the 'serious' artist
  • Inventing literary tradition, ghosting Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Fin de Sïcle
  • The Lost Girl, Tarr, and the 'Moment' of Modernism
  • Mapping the middlebrow in Edwardian England
  • 'Life is not composed of watertight compartments': the New Age's Critique of Modernist Literary Specialization
  • Conclusion: Modernism and English studies in history.