Modernism: The Lure of Heresy From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its influences on the fields of literature, poetry, music, architecture, and other art forms and profiling such key figures in the movement as Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf, among others.