ABSTRACT
Our introduction takes up the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used as the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in earlytwentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is the one which is constantly challenged, hybridised and fractured by voices operating from inside and outside the boundaries it designates. Alert to these disturbing voices or unsettling presences that vex accounts of an emergent Modernism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literary cultures between 1890 and 1939, our volume questions established critical mappings, taxonomies and periodisations of this vital literary cultural moment.
