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While the main focus of this volume is English-language literary modernism from 1890 to 1939, the scope is actually much broader. The collected entries draw rich connections between literary modernism of this period and other disciplines, precursors and successors, and modernist writers in other languages. Main entries include people (Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust), disciplines (Anthropology; Dance and literary modernism, 1890-1940; Film and modernism; Music), countries and cultures (Africa and the South; Canada, French; Hispanic American modernismo; Russia), and movements and theoretical approaches (Dada, Expressionism, Primitivism, Psychoanalysis). Literary modernist connections to World War I are covered in a nearly six-page entry, The War. There are separate entries for key works of James Joyce and for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, whose audacious premier is described with a verve unusual for a ready-reference encyclopedia.

The several hundred articles from nearly 70 academic contributors range from a few paragraphs (Gruppo 63) to some 15 pages for D. H. Lawrence and his work. Each entry is followed by a selected bibliography, with occasional annotations. A comprehensive index uses bold type to identify the main entry heading. Cross-references within and between entries also ease access. A selective bibliography of general works supplements the more specialized bibliographies at the end of each entry.

Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism will be most useful for academic libraries, but larger public and high-school libraries could benefit from having clearly presented ready-reference material on this very "influential artistic-cultural phenomenon" available in a single volume. The preface cites as valuable adjuncts to the current work Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane's classic essay collection Modernism, 1890-1930 (reprint, Penguin, 1991) and The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge, 1999), though it points out that neither was designed as a reference book. RBB
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D.H. Lawrence remains one of the most popular and studied authors of the 20th century. This book is a comprehensive but easy to use reference guide to Lawrence's life, works, and critical reception. The volume has been systematically structured to convey a coherent overall sense of Lawrence's achievement and critical reputation, but it is also designed to enable the reader who may be interested in only one aspect of Lawrence's career, perhaps even in only one of his novels or stories, to find relevant information quickly and easily without having to read other parts of the text. The book begins with an original biography by John Worthen,…