Modernism, Narrative and Humanism

Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine Modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. According to Sheehan, Modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key Modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how Modernists sought to discover humanism’s inhuman potential. He reveals the crucial link between the Modernist novel’s narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of interest to scholars of Modernism and literary theory.