Editorial/Introduction

A modernist manifesto

“…This blindness can lead to simple mistakes. That founding editorial opened with this sentence: ‘We begin this journal in the belief that the artistic movement known as modernism produced the most radical and comprehensive changes in western culture since romanticism.’ For me as a literary historian this statement is wrong. Modernism is not a literary period to be classed along with the Victorian, the Romantic, the neo‐classical.…”