Kevin Rulo is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Catholic University of America. He has published in The Review of English Studies, Neohelicon, and The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual.

'In this powerful, capacious, deeply researched book, Kevin Rulo teaches us that to be modern is also to be dismayed about being modern and to express that dismay in the form of satire: satirical modes of analysis and expression are foundational to modernism in all of its various phases and incarnations. Lucid and convincing, Satiric Modernism offers us bracing, revisionary understandings of each author and every text that falls under Rulo’s inquiry, even—especially—those authors with whom we are familiar, as well as those beyond the boundaries conventional to studies of the field. Not afraid to explore even the darkest aspects of these satirists’ worlds, demonstrating how each writer also turns the scalpel on their own failings, Rulo shows how these artists clear a way to make it new, building magnificently on excoriated ground.'John Whittier-Ferguson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Introduction: Modernism Satire Modernity Chapter 1 Artist and Society: “A war without a truce” Chapter 2 “All art is in fact satire today” Chapter 3 Satiric Joints: Lewis and JoyceChapter 4 Satire and the Ends of Modernism Envoi