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This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a ´multilingual turn´. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation.

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Introduction 1. Modernism and Babel 2. Representing Languages in Modernist Fiction 3. Writing in Translation: Jean Rhys´s Paris Fiction 4. Protean mutations: James Joyce´s Ulysses 5. French (de)Composition: Samuel Beckett´s Trilogy

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Juliette Taylor-Batty is Associate Principal Lecturer in English at Leeds Trinity University, UK. She has published articles on Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov and Rushdie and is the co-author of Samuel Beckett´s Waiting for Godot.

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