《现代运动》牛津大学出版社推出他们多卷本英国文学史的其中第十卷，由伦敦大学的克里斯·鲍尔迪克教授撰写。该书写作时间距离被讨论的作家群创作活动期较近，主要聚焦于一些最触目的人物和现象，集中讨论了哈代、詹姆斯、萧伯纳、康拉德、吉卜林、叶芝、乔伊斯和劳伦斯八位名家。

本书为读者提供了第二次世界大战前约三十年间英国文学文化的全景图，涵盖的内容涉及两百多位作家，在有限的空间里展示出庞杂而多彩的文学景观。其立论持中而又不失尖锐明快，更体现出作者对社会文化历史背景的重视和兴趣。文学史视野的扩展映现了近年来兴起的文化研究的深刻影响，使我们对那一时期英国文学的面貌有了更周全的了解。

General Editor's Preface

List of Figures and Tables

A Note on References

Introduction: Modern Beginnings

Part Ⅰ Elements

1. The Modern Literary Market

2. Modern Authorship

3. Modern English Usage

Part Ⅱ Forms

4. Modern Poetry

Verse Technique

Hardy and Yeats

Masefield, Brooke, Thomas, and 'Georgian' Poetry

Imagism and After: Pound, Eliot, Sitwell, and Lawrence

W. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties

Trends, Anthologies, and Reputations

5. Modern Drama

From Problem Play to Discussion Play

Comedy of Manners: Maugham and Coward

Historical and Verse Drama

6. Modern Short Stories

7. The Modern Novel: Principles and Methods

8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle

Provincial Chronicles and Sagas

Condition of England, Industrial, and Civic Novels

9. The Modern Psychological Novel

Realism and the Education Novel

High Modernism, Memory, and Consciousness

10. Modern Romance, Fable, and Historical Fiction

Romances of Truancy

Historical Novels

Fabulous Romances

Visionary Romances

11. Modern Satire

Verse Satire: Hardy, Eliot, and Sassoon

Prose Satire: Huxley, Waugh, and Others

12. Modern Essays, Biographies, Memoirs,

and Travel Books

13. Modern Entertainment: Forms of Light Reading

Detective Fiction

The Thriller

Romantic Love Stories

Comical Prose Fiction

Part Ⅲ Occasions

14. England and the English

Names for England

England Epitomized

England Explored

The English Character

The English Abroad

15. The Great War

Survivals of Heroic Literature

Four Phases of War-Writing

Passivity, Martyrology, and War Myths

16. Childhood and Youth

17. Sex and Sexualities

Sex-Talk in the Freudian Age

Realism, Deviance, and Censorship

Erotic Writing

Retrospect: Three Decades of Modern Realism

Author Bibliographies

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index