I hardly consider myself an expert on the movement, but I am certainly a fan, if only for the wonderful writing of Virginia Woolf. So what is modernism?

Well, to put it into a historical context, it was a movement in literature and the other arts, beginning just before the turn of the twentieth century and lasting until the start of the second world war. It came after the literature of the Victorian age, which generally featured idealised versions of life in which the good people were good, worked hard and got their reward at the end, and the bad people were bad, and got their just-desserts. (more…)