Reading the modern British and Irish novel : 1890-1930
Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow".
Criticism, interpretation, etc
IX, 297 Seiten.
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Introduction: Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel. 1 “I Was the World in Which I Walked”: The Transformation of the British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930. 2 Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: The Beginnings of the Modern Psychological Novel. 3 Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: “We Live, as We Dream - Alone”. 4 Conrad’s Lord Jim: Reading Texts, Reading Lives. 5 Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers: Speaking of Paul Morel: Voice, Unity, and Meaning. 6 Lawrence’s The Rainbow: Family Chronicle, Sexual Fulfillment, and the Quest for Form and Values. 7 Joyce’s Dubliners: Moral Paralysis in Dublin. 8 Joyce’s Ulysses: The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on June 16, 1904. 9 Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Sexual Repression, Madness, and Social Form. 10 Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: Choreographing Life and Creating Art as Time Passes. 11 Forster’s Passage to India: The Novel of Manners as Political Novel. Notes. Select Bibliography.