Books by Pericles (Yale University Lewis

The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion, through comparisons of major novelists with sociologists and psychologists from the same period.

This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.

This 2000 book examines how changing conceptions of national identity inspired radical experiments with narrative form amongst modernist writers. His study shows how, far from abandoning the political concerns of nineteenth-century realism, writers such as Joyce, Conrad and Proust address the question of nationality through their exploration of individual consciousness.