Making History New

Guided by Ezra Pound''s dictum --"Make it new"--a generation of writers set out to create fiction and poetry that was unlike anything that came before it. However, as Seamus O''Malley shows, historical narrative was a key site for modernist experimentation. Taking three of literary modernism''s major figures--Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West--Making History New demonstrates how the...