English fiction of the early modern period 1890-1940
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English fiction of the early modern period 1890-1940
（Longman literature in English series）
Longman, 1988
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p.[237]-244
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780582492844
Description
This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century English literature from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Joyce and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh. There are chapters on the younger writers of the age as well as the more popular minor writers like Buchan and Dornford Yates.
Table of Contents
- 1. Surviving giants - Hardy and James. 2. Joseph Conrad and the politics of power. 3. Rudyard Kipling - Imperial responsibility and literary escape. 4. E.M. Forster - The proclamations of the liberal agnostic. 5. Fictional politics and some minor forms
- Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus. 6. Virginia Woolf and the search for essences
- Modernism and its implications. 7. James Joyce, the professors and the common reader. 8. The reading public and the rise of a profession. 9. D.H.Lawrence - Our Bert versus our Lorenzo
- the 1930s - an aftermath.Notes on biography Major works and criticism
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: hbk ISBN 9780582492851
Description
This book aims to analyze the changes in literature during the period 1890-1940, presenting the concomitant changes in beliefs, politics, society, economics and culture as the contextual background for the major writers and major works of the time. This book is part of a series which aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the main genres in their historical context. It aims to cover literature written in English, including American and other overseas literatures, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, as well as such topics as literary criticism and literary theory.
Table of Contents
- Surviving giants - Hardy and James
- Joseph Conrad and the politics of power
- Rudyard Kipling - imperial responsibility and literary escape
- E.M. Forster - the proclamations of the liberal agnostic
- fictional politics and some minor forms
- Arnold Bennett on the Pentonville omnibus
- Virginia Woolf and the search for essences
- Modernism and its implications
- James Joyce, the professors and the common reader
- the reading public and the rise of a profession
- D.H.Lawrence - our Bert versus our Lorenzo
- the 1930s - an aftermath. Notes on biography, major works and criticism.
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