Preface; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: In Search of the Twentyish; A Decade Overlooked; Ruinations; Times of the Twenties; Genres of the Twenties; Places of the Twenties; National Literatures and International Authors; Twentyish Figures: Character-Types of the Decade; Antinomies of the Twenties: Tradition and Experiment; Generations of the Twenties; Insecure Boundaries and Textual Revisions; Chapter 1 - A Literature of Ideas; The Inner Voice: Gyres and Ganglia; Heavy Food; Shaw: Back to Methuselah; The Advent of Freud; Sinclair: Life and Death of Harriett Frean; Tendentious Fiction and Narrative Preaching; Longer Philosophical Poems: Bridges and MacDiarmid; Aldous Huxley and the Novel of Ideas; Chapter 2 - Mixing Memory and Desire: Modernism and Anachronism; Woolf: Mrs Dalloway; Ford: Some Do Not .; 'The Waste Land': Eliot's Exhumations of the Dead; Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity; From Here to Simultaneity: Criticism against History; Powys: Mr Weston's Good Wine; Shaw: Saint Joan; Chapter 3 - Never Such Innocence: Versions of Experience and Disillusionment; Dividing Lines; Cracks across History; Triptychal Permutations of War Literature; Ironies of Trench Education: Blunden, Sassoon, Graves; War-Experience in the Novel: The Spanish Farm Trilogy and Kangaroo; Other Disenchantments and Awakenings: Mansfield; The Painted Veil and Mr Fortune's Maggot; Learning from Experience: Huxley; The Elder Ironists and the End of Innocence; Disillusionment and All That; Chapter 4 - Impunities: Crime, Comedy and Camp; Maugham: The Casuarina Tree; Murder Most Frivolous: Detective Fiction of the Early Golden Age; The Comedy of Crime I: On Stage; Lonsdale: The Last of Mrs Cheyney; Travers: Plunder; The Comedy of Crime II: Narrative Comedy; Waugh: Decline and Fall; Types of Promiscuity; Arlen: The Green Hat; Straying and Misbehaving; Aren't we all? Amorality and the rise of Camp; Chapter 5 - But It Still Goes On: The Passing of the Twenties; Previews of the Thirties; The Twenties Revisited: Waugh and Isherwood; Conclusions; Works Cited; Index.