Table of Contents:
  • 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.