A reader's guide to Edwardian literature
Anthea Trodd
University of Calgary Press
A survey of the diversities of Edwardian writing and how they fit into literary and cultural change. This book covers writers such as Conrad, Forster, Wells, Bennett, Shaw, Kipling, Tressell, Hardy, Yeats and Woolf. Modernists such as Lawrence and Mansfield are also included. The author combines literary criticism of writing in the Edwardian period with cultural assessments (for example, she examines imperialism and patriarchy), and sets her work in an historical context.