DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Gothic and Romantic literature, contemporary writing and culture, and on literary theory, psychoanalysis and the postcolonial.

'A lively, energetic and provoking study by one of the best critics of contemporary fiction in English today.' - Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: HISTORIESModernity and EnlightenmentModernity and DecadenceModernity and ModernismModernity NowPART II: STRUCTURES OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITYPost'Differend'HauntologyGlobal LanguageDevelopmentHong KongArchitectureDirtPowerHatredMarxismChildrenAnimalMuseumsAgeCommodityWarRepetitionMapsPerversionPART III: TEXTSOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayT. S. Eliot, The Waste LandWilliam Gibson, NeuromancerM. John Harrison, LightConclusionAnnotated BibliographyBibliographyIndex.

DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Gothic and Romantic literature, contemporary writing and culture, and on literary theory, psychoanalysis and the postcolonial.

'A lively, energetic and provoking study by one of the best critics of contemporary fiction in English today.' - Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: HISTORIESModernity and EnlightenmentModernity and DecadenceModernity and ModernismModernity NowPART II: STRUCTURES OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITYPost'Differend'HauntologyGlobal LanguageDevelopmentHong KongArchitectureDirtPowerHatredMarxismChildrenAnimalMuseumsAgeCommodityWarRepetitionMapsPerversionPART III: TEXTSOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayT. S. Eliot, The Waste LandWilliam Gibson, NeuromancerM. John Harrison, LightConclusionAnnotated BibliographyBibliographyIndex.

DAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Gothic and Romantic literature, contemporary writing and culture, and on literary theory, psychoanalysis and the postcolonial.

'A lively, energetic and provoking study by one of the best critics of contemporary fiction in English today.' - Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex, UK

• General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: HISTORIESModernity and EnlightenmentModernity and DecadenceModernity and ModernismModernity NowPART II: STRUCTURES OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITYPost'Differend'HauntologyGlobal LanguageDevelopmentHong KongArchitectureDirtPowerHatredMarxismChildrenAnimalMuseumsAgeCommodityWarRepetitionMapsPerversionPART III: TEXTSOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian GrayT. S. Eliot, The Waste LandWilliam Gibson, NeuromancerM. John Harrison, LightConclusionAnnotated BibliographyBibliographyIndex.