Catastrophe & imagination : English & American writings from 1870 to 1950

著者

• McCormick, John

書誌事項

Catastrophe & imagination : English & American writings from 1870 to 1950

John McCormick

（Literature History Culture Studies）

Transaction Publishers, c1998

• : pbk

タイトル別名

Catastrophe and imagination

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

Originally published in 1957 by Longmans, Green and Co.

With a new introduction by the auther

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Since World War II critics have been predicting the decline of the novel. This book argues that the novel is not dead. Looking at American and English fiction it claims that the novel can not only change the possibilities of art, but also contribute to awareness of life's possibilities.

目次

1. Background to Catastrophe 2. An Experiment in Definition 3. Death, Manners, and Ideas 4. The two Naturalisms 5. Tradition and the Novel: England 6. Tradition and the Novel: America 7. War and Politics 8. The Novel As Obsession 9. Allegory and Satire 10. The Unwithered Branch

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC12110718
• ISBN:
  • 9781560009757
• LCCN: 97043285
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New Brunswick, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 327 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PR881
  • DC21 : 823.009/358
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Disasters in literature
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- English-speaking countries
  • LCSH : War and literature -- English-speaking countries