Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel will be invaluable to scholars as a work attuned to that moment's favoured modes of response, the debates it inaugurated around questions of form, and the powerful resistance it offers to recuperation on the terms of prevalent aesthetic and periodizing categories.
Julia Jordan is Associate Professor of English at UCL. She is the author of Chance and the Modern British Novel (2010), and she has co-edited an anthology of B.S. Johnson's writing entitled Well Done God! (Picador, 2013). She has also published essays in a variety of collections and journals on aspects of twentieth-century literature, and in particular the experimental writing of the 1960s and 70s.