The Sylvia Townsend Warner Conference, April 2018

Abstract

This introduction explains the rationale for the Sylvia Townsend Warner and Modernism conference, at which the essays that follow were presented. The conference sought to place Warner’s work in relation to current debates about modernism and to build on existing work – notably by David James – that began to think about Warner’s texts with attention to issues of form and style. An overview of the range of papers and topics is also provided.