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Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (review)

V Mahaffey’s Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions vigorously defends difficult modernism—not by attempting to smooth over its difficulties but by arguing for their usefulness, a usefulness that Mahaffey finds primarily ethical. One reads “challenging literature,” Mahaffey claims, because “such literature forces readers to face and make interpretive choices that narrators used to make for them” (7). In contrast to earlier and traditional fiction, then, modernism presents something different for readers; Mahaffey posits that modernism