Books in the MODERNIST LITERATURE AND CULTURE SERIES series

Out of Context disrupts the notion of static context, instead proposing a transhistorical approach to literature, revealing that the significance of literature is in its moments of surprising reception.

Blasphemous Modernism argues that blasphemy is a signal mode of modernist literary expression. Reading a diverse range of poets (Mina Loy, Langston Hughes) and novelists (James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Salman Rushdie), Pinkerton shows how these writers forged the literature of modernism from the idiom of blasphemy.