Author: Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harriss hugely acclaimed book Romantic Moderns (winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award) overturned our picture of modernist culture...

An award-winning study of Englands unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fou...

As the twenty-first century unfolds, notions of our cultural past and how our history has influenced our present shift almost daily. Within this, a...

Dates are invented things. Nothing in nature decrees that today is today. But for millennia humans have divided time into portions, and given those...

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Pipe...

The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as the story of changing ideas about the weather. Writers and artists across the cen...

In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. ...