Pt. I. Introduction. Pt. II. Modernism and romanticism. Romantic image / Frank Kermode -- Pound/Stevens: whose era? / Marjorie Perloff. Realism and formalism. The ideology of modernism / Georg Lukács -- Reconciliation under duress / Theodor Adorno. Modernism and the avant-garde. Adorno: a critical introduction / Simon Jarvis -- Theory of the avant-garde / Peter Bürger. Modernism, the masses, and the culture industry. Mass culture as woman / Andreas Huyssen -- T.S. Eliot and the cultural divide: a 'black and grinning muse" / David E. Chinitz -- T.S. Eliot and the cultural divide: down at Tom's Place / David E. Chinitz -- T.S. Eliot and the cultural divide: an 'avant-garde' program / David E. Chinitz. Modernity and the city. The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- The mire of the macadam / Marshall Berman -- The invisible Flâneuse: women and the literature of modernity / Janet Wolff. Regendering modernism. 'A tangled mesh of modernists' (diagram) / Bonnie Kime Scott -- 'Beyond the reaches of feminist criticism: a letter from Paris' / Shari Benstock -- 'Modernism and modernity: engendering literary history' / Rita Felski. Publishing modernism. The price of modernism / Lawrence Rainey. Late modernism. The epistemology of late modernism / Alan Wilde -- Late modernist poetics / Anthony Mellors -- Late modernist poetics / Anthony Mellors