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"Modernism and the fate of individuality examines thecomplexities and transitions of the idea of the self in themodernist period. Michael Levenson addresses the problem ofindividuality, structuring his argument around detailed readingsof eight major novels by Conrad, James, Forster, Ford, Lewis,Lawrence and Woolf, and his discussion engages with theextensive body of modern theoretical writing on the topic. Thebook addresses issues such as the crisis of liberalism, thechallenge to Eurocentrism, the advance of bureaucracy, andthe contest between men and women. Central to its concernsis the problem, in locating the self within the entanglementsof a community, of defining formal concepts whilst preservinga moral value."

"Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of radical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. She depicts the "men of 1914," (as Wyndham Lewis called the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural objectives of British literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic effort associated with British socialism and feminism of the period."

"In Modernism, Narrative and Humanism, Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. For Sheehan modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how modernistssought to discover humanism’s inhuman potential.Heexamines the development of narrative during the modernist period and sets it against, among others, the nineteenth-century philosophicalwritings of Schopenhauer, Darwin and Nietzsche. Focusing on the major novels and poetics of Conrad, Lawrence,Woolf and Beckett, Sheehan investigates these writers’ mistrust of humanist orthodoxyand their consequent transformations and disfigurations of narrative order. He reveals the crucial link between the modernist novel’snarrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of compelling interest to scholars of modernism and literarytheory."