Modernism: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Michael Levenson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, 2nd ed. (2011), gives a good overview. Useful works on early Modernists include Christopher Butler, Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900–1916 (1994); William R. Everdell, The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought (1997); and Michael H. Levenson, Modernism (2011). Peter Gay, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (2008); and Maren Tova Linett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (2010), address Modernist literature; and Matthew S. Witkovsky (ed.), Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early-Twentieth-Century European Modernism (2011), is a catalog from an art exhibition. Gabriel Josipovici, What Ever Happened to Modernism? (2010), decries contemporary literature and argues for the values of Modernism.
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| Deleted Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Modernism. | Nov 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Modernism. | Nov 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Modernism. | Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art UK - Modernism. | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Modernism. | Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Eastern Connecticut State University - British Modernism. | Feb 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pressbooks via Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project - Modern World Literature: Compact Edition - Modernism. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cambridge University Press - CambridgeCore - Introduction: A History of Modernism. | Aug 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Exeter - ORE Open Research Exeter - Theatrical modernism: a problematic (PDF). | May 17, 2025 | ||
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| Questions and answers added. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences - Late Modernism in Literary Works (PDF). | Dec 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Oxford - Great Writers Inspire - Modernism. | Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Tate - Modernism. | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Modernism. | Jul 29, 2024 | ||
| Added media. | May 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts - Modernism: Origin and Growth. | May 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Boise State Pressbooks - The Creative Spirit: 1550-Present - Modernism. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Modern Art � An Exploration of the 20th-Century Modernist Movement. | Jan 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: California State University Northridge - Modernism. | Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Victoria and Albert Museum - What was Modernism? | Mar 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Modernism. | Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 27, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poets.org - A Brief Guide to Modernism. | Jul 11, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Toledo - Canaday Center - What is Modernism? | Feb 19, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 19, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Miami Dade College - History of Modernism. | Jan 17, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 02, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 22, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Victoria and Albert Museum - Modernism. | Aug 21, 2014 | ||
| Bibliography expanded. | Aug 08, 2014 | ||
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| Add new Web site: The Museum of Modern Art - Modernism. | Mar 13, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Modernism. | Aug 02, 2013 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Jun 05, 2009 | ||
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