Travers Martin. An introduction to modern European literature: from romanticism to postmodernism

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. — 304 p.Wide-ranging and imaginative, this volume provides an incisive guide to the rich heritage of European literature. The book gives a lively account of major figures and texts as well as previously marginalised writers, assessing their relevance to the broad European tradition and the social, political and intellectual issues which shaped it. Structured around the major literary movements of the period - Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, Modernism, the Literature of Political Engagement and Postmodernism - the book will be invaluable to all students of modern literature and European cultural history. Each chapter concludes with a detailed chronology of the major literary texts of each movement, covering fiction, drama and poetry. A detailed, annotated bibliography also guides the student through the seminal works of critical scholarship in the field.Romanticism.
Radical Energy: The Context of European.
Romanticism.
The Way Within': Romanticism - Goals and Programme.
Self and World: The Literature of Romantic Individualism.
Revolt and Declaration: Romantic Drama.
'All things are sentient': Romantic Nature Poetry.
The Darker Self: Romantic Gothic.
'Hymns to the Night': The Longing for Transcendence.
Literature in the Age of Romanticism A Chronology.
Realism and Naturalism.
'Force and Matter': The Context of European Realism.
'All is True': The Aesthetic of Literary Realism.
'Lost Illusions': Realism and the Experience of the City.
The Limits of Subjectivity: The (Female) Self and the Realist Novel.
Integration and Community: Poetic Realism and the Bildungsroman.
The Problem of Action: Drama in the Age of Realism.
The Literary Laboratory: Naturalism Literature in the Age of Realism: A Chronology.
Modernism.
The Will to the End': The Context of European Modernism.
Modernism: Between Experimentation and Tradition.
The Literature of the Aesthetic Revival.
Symbolism and Decadence.
Hearts of Darkness: The Self as Other Memory, Time and Consciousness: Modernism and the Epistemological 'Breakthrough.
Libido and the Body Culture: Sexuality in the Modernist Novel.
Fragments of Modernity: Modernist Poetry.
The Literature of Modernism: A Chronology.
The Literature of Political Engagement.
Literature in the Age of Political Commitment.
The Context.
Writers and Politics: Programme and Practice.
The Politicisation of Modernism: Between Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit.
The Imperative of Commitment: The Literature of Radical Humanism.
'The God that failed': Disillusion/Dystopia.
The Attractions of Fascism: The Literature of the Conservative Revolution.
The Leap of Faith: The Literature of the Catholic Revival and Existentialism.
Literature in the Age of Political Commitment A Chronology.
Postmodernism.
After All: The Context of European Postmodernism.
Postmodernism: A Theoretical Project.
The Self-Conscious Text: From the Nouveau Roman to Metafiction.
The Politics of Ritual: The Theatre of the Absurd.
Self, History, Myth: The Literature of Magic Realism.
Structures of Subjectivity: Postmodernism and the Poetic Text.
Written as the Body: Feminist Writing and Postmodernism.
The Literature of Postmodernism: A Chronology.
From Romanticism to Postmodernism: An Annotated Bibliography.
Romanticism.
Realism and Naturalism.
Modernism.
The Literature of Political Commitment.
Postmodernism.
Notes.
Index.