What Is Modernism, Anyway?

[The Review Essay from my PhD Comprehensive Examination Portfolio, which at least a few of my colleagues have purportedly found useful and informative for engaging with the surprisingly difficult question of just what the heck is literary Modernism, anyways?]

The oft-cited quote that haunts much of contemporary Anglo-Modernist scholarship comes from John Harwood: “We are accustomed to thinking of ‘Modernism’ as something that flourished a century ago, but the term itself was not widely...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>