The Luncheon W Somerset Maugham

Chapter One - Modernism Modernism - Context The period of modernism, in its broadest sense, stretches from the 1850s to the present and represents one of the major shifts in the cultural thought and values of Western culture. The beginning of the modern period marks the end of the Renaissance period of humanism and optimistic individualism prevalent since the mid-seventeenth century[1]. Defined more narrowly, the term modernism applies to the twentieth-century literary movement whose period