In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist literature one of the most vibrant areas of literary studies today. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature offers a comprehensive guide to current research in the field, covering topics including:

- The modernist everyday: emotion, myth, geographies and language scepticism
- Modernist literature and the arts: music, the visual arts, cinema and popular culture
- Textual and archival approaches: manuscripts, genetic criticism and modernist magazines
- Modernist literature and science: sexology, neurology, psychology, technology and the theory of relativity
- The geopolitics of modernism: globalization, politics and economics
- Resources: keywords and an annotated bibliography