This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.

• Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain.
• Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.
• Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres.
• Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.