Ann L. Ardis is Associate Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Delaware. She is the author of New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism (1990) and co-editor (with Bonnie Kime Scott) of Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries: Selected Papers from the Ninth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2000) and (with Leslie Lewis) of Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 (2002).
Acknowledgements
Introduction: rethinking modernism, remapping the turn of the twentieth century
1. Beatrice Webb and the 'serious' artist
2. Inventing literary tradition, ghosting Oscar Wilde and the Victorian fin de siècle
3. The Lost Girl, Tarr, and the 'moment' of modernism
4. Mapping the middlebrow in Edwardian England
5. 'Life is not composed of watertight compartments': the New Age's critique of modernist literary specialization
Conclusion: modernism and English studies in history
Select bibliography
Index.
