{"product_id":"moderns-chaucer-to-contemporary-f","title":"Moderns Chaucer To Contemporary F","description":"In this compelling new book, A. Robert Lee tackles the questions: how, and why, does a literary work assume the mantle of ‘modern’? He shows, with wit and verve, that writing as far back as Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales \u003c\/i\u003ecan be called ‘modern’. That the term further applies to John Skelton’s poetry and to Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003eand to the sexual and theological verse of John Donne. That ‘modern’ literary experimentation holds as you read Sterne’s \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e, the poetry of Byron, the gothic of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the essays of Hazlitt, a novel like Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Agent\u003c\/i\u003e and the work of Samuel Butler, Lytton Strachey and Ford Madox Ford. That with writers such as Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson and Jean Rhys you have a gallery of the feminist modern. These ‘ultra’ moderns segue into the postmodern turn of B.S. Johnson and Ann Quin and to boundary-pushing contemporary fiction, from Bernardine Evaristo to Alan Hollinghurst. However singular each writer, Lee argues persuasively for a distinctive collection of ‘modern’ voices.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57195524981118,"sku":"NW9781399543804","price":61.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781399543804.jpg?v=1778597399","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/moderns-chaucer-to-contemporary-f","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}