York Notes Companions: Modernist Literature

About Gary Day

Dr Gary Day is Principal Lecturer and English Course leader for the MA in Independent Study at the University of De Montfort. He has a wide range of literary interests including modern literature and drama and the history of criticism. He is also widely published with his most recent work Literary Criticism: A New History (Edinburgh University Press 2008) described as exuberantly readable a book that will appeal to students and scholars alike. He is also the author of Class (Routledge 2001) described by Terry Eagleton as a signal achievement. In addition to being the author of several other books and of many chapters essays and articles he has also edited Palgraves New Casebook on The Rainbow and Women in Love (Macmillan 2004) British Poetry 19901950 (Macmillan 1995) and Literature and Culture in Modern Britain Volumes 2 and 3 (Longman 1997 1999). He is a reviewer for amongst others THES the Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies and the TLS. Gary Day is joint editor with Jack Lynch of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Eighteenth Century Literature.