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Alexandra Harris

British writer and literary historian; professor of English at the University of Liverpool from 2007 to 2017, later at the University of Birmingham; author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.

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FuryBook David Morley

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And this title, Fury.

Five Books interview: the Best Poetry Books of 2020

2020-12-09·fivebooks.com ↗

Early ModernismBook Christopher Butler

recommended

We all grow up talking about novels in terms of what happens in them – plot and characters – but Early Modernism showed me how you talk about the form of a novel, the texture of a piece of music, or why it is that Matisse paints a room without perspective and how if you half close your eyes that flat canvas becomes a dance of forms.

Five Books interview: the best books on Modernism

2012-03-09·fivebooks.com ↗

Jacob's RoomBook Virginia Woolf

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So, as with Jacob’s Room, it’s about what is missing from a story – about everything that is not known.

Five Books interview: the best books on Modernism

2012-03-09·fivebooks.com ↗

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